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...presence is unquestionably illegal. But the foreign fishers have few alternatives. Almost all of them are from Merauke, a village in Indonesia's Irian Jaya, about 145 nautical mi. (270 km) to the northwest. If they can avoid detection, the men could bring home a spectacular catch of shark fin (which can sell for $A200 a kg) and retire. The court houses and lock-ups on Thursday Island and in the Arnhem Land town of Nhulunbuy are stretched due to an official crackdown on FFVs. In 2003, 138 vessels were apprehended, mostly in northern waters; this year the tally...
...talk and emotions and anger and empathy--the constant torrent of the man--seem all too familiar, there are some new twists as well. He has been through intense family therapy--a year of it after the Lewinsky scandal--and religious counseling. After moving through life like a shark, always forward, always thinking about tomorrow, in the words of his overutilized campaign song, he has spent an awful lot of time thinking about yesterday, in therapy and in writing the book. As a result, Clinton has settled on a starkly psychological explanation for his behavior. ("I believe in this...
...says Italy has been watching this show for centuries: "Italians can talk about nothing for hours. Our theatrical tradition is rather modest because the real theater is in the streets, in the shops, in Parliament." In other countries, faced with declining ratings, the plotline has begun to jump the shark tank of acceptable television behavior. The German edition earlier this year featured ongoing hot tub orgies, and in mid-June the British show was visited by police after a fight broke out in the house. But in Italy, it's all about the gab. Fausto Enni, one of the Italian...
...fancy Bangkok restaurant, a tureen of shark's fin soup will set you back as much as $250. But the real cost is to the environment, according to WildAid, a San Francisco-based environmental foundation. WildAid says the oceans' ecosystem is under threat from the annual slaughter of an estimated more than 50 million sharks, and the organization launched a print- and TV-ad campaign in mid-2001 that shows fishermen slicing fins off sharks and kicking them back into the sea to die. The ads also warn that fins might be contaminated with mercury. The campaign has been...
...Certainly not from Bangkok's Association of Shark Fin Restaurants, a group of about 30 Chinatown eateries. They're biting back with a $2.7 million lawsuit against WildAid and the local office of J. Walter Thompson, the New York City-based advertising agency that created the campaign for free. The charge: false claims by WildAid have caused their sales of shark dishes to drop by 50%. Last week in court, David Lau, secretary-general of the association, personally cross-examined Galster, alleging that the American conservationist had staged videos and faked photos of dying sharks. To TIME, he also claimed...