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...tons of total landed catch, and added about $600 million to a worldwide $26 billion-a-year fishing business. And University of British Columbia researchers calculate that current subsidies for high-sea bottom-trawling amount to just over $150 million, a small fraction of the $30 billion that governments spend yearly to prop up a global fishing industry that produces twice as much as is sustainable. "It's important to nip these subsidies in the bud before more interests get barnacled around them," says University of British Columbia's Rashid Sumaila, who has advised the World Trade Organization...
...shopworn theme of modern literature; writers love to draw on their own professional struggles as they disgorge novels about being or trying to become writers. But in an age when so many cultural products compete for the public attention, to bring forth yet another work of this kind - to spend a book pondering, as Nan does, the question, "Do you have to live a literary life to produce literary work?" - is risky indeed. Ha Jin's demotic prose is as smooth as Windexed glass, but A Free Life lacks the dark, propulsive verve of his earlier work...
...could lie beside its democratic descendants, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, in testimony to the power of pen over sword. But amid a revived debate over the meaning of due process in the age of terrorism, the Perot Foundation decided it wanted more money to spend on its signature causes, particularly the care of wounded soldiers, and put the document up for sale...
...private school it is hard to argue against any sort of financial aid. Then, on an open-list, I read a seemingly valid argument against giving such aid to the upper middle classes. The argument goes something like this: Families earning $180,000 per year with long-term spending habits that don’t include saving (presumably because they are conspicuous consumers), are going to be effectively subsidized by Harvard under the new policy. The flipside, of course, is that more “modest” families of the same income will have significantly more savings and, therefore...
...variety of other fields.”Levitsky also advises several campus student groups, including the Harvard Organization for Latin America and the Harvard College Project for Sustainable Development. Levitsky said that, while he could be more involved on campus, he usually goes home after work to spend time with his wife and three-year-old daughter. Levitsky joked that had he been denied tenure, he would have sought employment at one of the other universities in the area or at Boca Grande Taqueria, the burrito shop near his home.—Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached...