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...Fortunately, there is an alternative to harvesting food directly from the sea. By using artificial ponds, lakes, streams and even cordoned-off estuaries and bays to raise fish, man can give nature a helping hand. Fish farming is hardly new; as long ago as 475 B.C., a Chinese scholar-statesman named Fan Li wrote the first how-to-do-it treatise. But as marine biologists seek to exploit its full potential -especially as a way of relieving the world's chronic shortage of protein-water farming, or aquaculture, looms as an ever more important source of food...
...high; he was leader of his country, had a house with a prestigious address and drew a salary of $36,600 a year. Then, in one short election day, he lost his job, his house and much of his income. Now things are looking up again for the liberal statesman. For the inside story of his ruling years, Wilson will receive close to $250,000-more than he made during his six years as England's Prime Minister...
There is also a yen for more yen. In a recent association test, a group of Japanese businessmen were asked what the sight of a 10,000-yen banknote made them think of. Most of them replied: 1) Prince Shotoku, the 7th century statesman pictured on the note, and 2) horse racing...
...mother What shall I cry? We demand a committee, a representative committee, a committee of investigation RESIGN RESIGN RESIGN−T.S. Eliot, Difficulties of a Statesman...
...were capable of appraising why such an apparently trivial series of events came to have such overwhelming importance. While U.S. sophistication about Southeast Asia has inevitably grown since then, intelligence is still based on an uneven apparatus of informers and interpreters; it is a shaky foundation for any statesman to build...