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...past, fishing quotas - or the government allotments of set amounts of fish to private parties - have not always won over the hearts of seafarers. But looking at more than 11,000 fisheries worldwide, researchers led by scientists from the University of California, Santa Barbara, found that countries that had effectively privatized their fish stock by doling out quotas to individual fishermen were half as likely to experience a collapse as those that did not. "The idea is that by securing access for individuals or select groups for a long period of time, they have an incentive to steward the resources...
...lost on the earliest entertainment honchos. Nightwatch, a popular radio serial in the early 1950s, followed a group of Culver City, Calif. police officers on patrol (and became the ancestor of another reality giant, Cops). In 1973 An American Family, a 12-part series that brought us the Santa Barbara, Calif. Loud clan, broke new ground with its artful, excruciatingly real portrayal of a family in transition. With its unabashed invasion into the private lives of the Louds, and exploration of taboo subjects like the divorce of parents Pat and Bill and the open homosexuality of eldest son Lance...
...delayed her morning’s errands—it had taken nearly fifteen minutes of apologies to soothe the withered old grocer—but Roxanna’s step was light. Surely the Viscount and Viscountess would not mind. Look how the dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore caught the mid-morning sunshine. Look at those clouds bounding through the blue. Oh, how she loved Florence!As she left the city, passing through its old Roman gate, Roxanna mused again over the improbability of her happiness. To think that Viscount Frederick, always so devoted...
...college very briefly—Santa Monica College of Los Angeles. It’s beautiful, but we pretty much got signed to a record deal right out of high school, so I didn’t put in any real time going to college. And to be perfectly honest, at the time, I wasn’t really interested. I was playing in the band, we were on the verge of getting a record deal, and I was working for a record label. I was really kind of immersed in the world that I wanted to be immersed...
...obtain autonomy for the resource-rich eastern regions they control turned violent. The opposition Prefects are demanding greater control over policies ranging from land reform to the allocation of the earnings of Bolivia's natural gas exports, which originate in their regions. Earlier this year, the departments of Tarija, Santa Cruz, Pando and Beni voted overwhelmingly in favor of opposition-drafted autonomy statutes, but since those referenda were not sanctioned by the national electoral court, the central government refuses to recognize the results...