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...Most people think oil spills cause the most harm to ocean life. They don't. Fishing does. When a tanker wrecks, news crews flock to film gooey beaches and dying animals. Journalists rush right past the picturesque fishing boats whose huge nets and 1,000-hook long-lines wreak far more havoc on the marine world than spilled...
...kits to cars. Gatto trained himself with books and videos and bought his own cell phone, cameras, video and tape recorders for preserving evidence. He learned all the tricks for detecting concealed improper discharges of waste. For example, he could put a green dye tablet into a toilet and rush outside to examine the water flowing into a storm drain. If it turned green, it meant that sewage was illegally running into the drain. He sat next to pipes throughout the night waiting for intermittent eruptions of toxic effluent. He busted apartment buildings, stores, car dealers, restaurants, bars...
...Living in this area during rush hour is like living in a motorcade," one resident said. "Even minimal changes will have an enormous impact on the neighborhood...
...replicated in nature. Pope also points out a stunning little feature of the three-year-old video game Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown, developed by GT Interactive Software. When Duke gets tired, he can find a bottle of steroids to get him going. "Steroids give Duke a super adrenaline rush," the game manual notes...
...around 9 p.m on Tuesday, April 11, 15 members of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association (APALSA) gathered at Temple Bar to celebrate the election of their executive board. They subsequently suffered two horrific indignities. First, because the restaurant was still in the midst of its dinner rush and the hostess did not understand that APALSA group intended to order food, they were forced to wait 25 minutes to get a table. Second--and this was the straw that broke the camel's back--the group was asked to present I.D. at the door...