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Biologist Ransom Myers of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia led a team of researchers in examining the logbooks of U.S. fishing boats operating in the northwestern Atlantic from 1986 to 2000. The fleets were hunting swordfish and tuna using what are known as longlines, cables stretching as long as 20 miles that are equipped with more than 500 baited hooks. Toss a line overboard, and up should come your desired prey--plus a lot of other hungry fish that you didn't mean to snag. "Longlines are designed to collect large marine predators," says biologist Julia Baum, lead author...
...Lethal Weapon series, in Ransom and in Signs, Gibson was the loner battling impossible odds. He seems to feel that way about The Passion, which should be ready for Easter 2004. A conservative in reflexively liberal Hollywood, and a devout Catholic in an industry whose products often mock religion, Gibson senses opposition to his film. The star, who had kept the set closed to the press before allowing TIME to visit this month, was angry that friends and relatives, including his 85-year-old father, had been pestered by an unidentified reporter preparing a story on The Passion. He suspects...
...ARRESTED. MERANG ABANTE, alleged middle-ranking leader of the Abu Sayyaf Muslim extremist group; in Zamboanga. The Philippine government had offered an $18,500 bounty for Abante's capture. Abu Sayyaf has conducted a spree of kidnappings for ransom and is suspected of being behind a recent series of bombings in the southern Philippines...
...Ransom Notes...
...great contrast to the price of an African life, the life of an executive at the Sanyo Corporation is worth $2 million. In August 1996, according to CNN, kidnappers in Tijuana, Mexico, released Mamoru Konno after his company paid the $2 million ransom they were demanding. In other words, his life is worth as much money as 10,000 African lives. When lives are put in stark terms of cash value—one life the victim of extortionists and the other the victim of cruel circumstance—the disparity in “value” is shockingly...