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During the previous summer in Miami, Alvarez met Valentin Fuster, the acclaimed Spanish cardiologist. And through Fuster, he landed the internship in Spain...
...European publishers, however. "This is not much more than a tired PR maneuver," says Christian Sprang of the German Booksellers and Publishers Association. "I don't believe Google is really interested in a compromise." At the E.U. hearings in Brussels, the representatives of publishing groups and governments from Italy, Spain and France have been expressing similar fears. According to the International Herald Tribune, a spokesman for the French Ministry of Culture repeated France's long-held stance that Google's book project was a risk to cultural diversity, speculating that Google might withhold access to what is essentially "cultural data...
...question Democrats have to be asking themselves is, How many times is Nancy Pelosi going to make them walk the plank and cast a vote for a fatally flawed bill?" asks Ken Spain, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, which helps elect GOP candidates to the House. "This kind of overreach would be a policy disaster for middle-class Americans, but a dream scenario for any Republican opponent...
...Friends of the Tuna - which unites practitioners of the almadraba, an ancient, artisanal method of tuna fishing in the Mediterranean - López was busy on Sept. 9 preparing a talk for the organization's annual conference. The planned program for the gathering - which will bring almadraba fishermen from Spain, Portugal, Italy and Morocco to the Andalusian town of Isla Cristina on Sept. 11 - includes sessions on everything from the different types of boats used to the traditional uses of unlikely tuna parts (eyes, it seems, contain an excellent oil). "But you can bet the ban will be a major...
...people within the tuna industry see pressure tactics, rather than courage, at work. "The lobby formed by WWF, Greenpeace and others is too strong to resist," says David Martínez Cañabate, adjunct director for the Ricardo Fuentes Group, Spain's largest tuna farming and distribution company. "We put so much money and effort into coming up with a recovery plan within ICCAT, and it was producing results. But now it means nothing. Because according to those groups, the only option is to close the fishery - they won't consider other options." (Watch a video of a bluefin...