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Fights have already started to break out over the dwindling supply. Two weeks ago, hundreds of Canadian fishermen blockaded a British Columbia port for several days to keep an Alaskan ferry from leaving. The reason for their protest? Alaskan trawlers were sweeping up the salmon that spawn in Canada's rivers. Now the Canadians are threatening to do to the salmon runs of Washington State what U.S. fishermen have done to theirs...
...surveys show they prize honesty, competence and practicality over old-fashioned lockstep thinking and knee-jerk anti-Americanism. With AIDS the third leading killer of Mexicans under age 35, they are demanding a more candid discussion in the traditionally prim media of issues like sexuality. The demands have helped spawn a renaissance in Mexican television, cinema and journalism...
...fourth guy says, "All movies are comic books these days. Let's do more movies based on comic books!" Not just Batman & Robin and Men in Black but also two August releases, Spawn and Steel, are comic book-inspired. This junk-culture trend must please the kids in the Development departments; no more novels to read, with all those annoying words...
...world. We can accept atrocities as inevitable, or we can strive for a higher standard. We can presume to forget what only God and the victims have standing to forgive, or we can heed the most searing lesson of this century which is that evil, when unopposed, will spawn more evil...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a closely watched decision that could spawn a new round of equity actions in women's collegiate sports, the Supreme Court let stand a ruling that Brown University had discriminated against its women athletes when it stripped funding from its women's varsity volleyball and gymnastics teams. The dispute began back in 1991, when the university eliminated the programs, along with men's varsity golf and water polo, as part of a budget reduction plan. Several of the 23 female athletes affected by the cuts sued the school on grounds that it had violated Title...