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...current. Without leaving the tank, they swim out of the Australian Bight, south over the continental shelf and then west and north, around Western Australia and up to their spawning grounds near the Timor Sea. They've now spawned three times and produced eggs and larvae. The next step is to feed the millions of larvae the right plankton so they develop into tiny fish, eventually to be farmed in offshore pens. "Out of 10 steps, we're probably at No. 3 or 4," says Mike Thomson, Clean Seas' research and development manager. The company says it's prepared...
...late 1969, when the world was a much bigger, less connected place and his rival coaches were enjoying their summer holidays, Gibson took the extraordinary step of attending a National Football League conference in Hawaii. He'd felt an affinity with the U.S., having grown up believing that his father's uncle, Hugh Cooper Gibson, was Secretary of State to President Woodrow Wilson. (Much later, he learned that his great-uncle had been merely a senior official in the State Department at that time...
...scientist in The Sims, you can forget your worries as you plot your path to glory. So it may seem odd that the very first thing you do in Wii Fit, an unconventional new game that goes on sale for $90 in the U.S. on May 19, is step on a scale and weigh yourself. I don't know about you, but weighing in each morning is not my idea of a good time. And it's certainly no fantasy...
...Other,’ and it’s very much an us-versus-them conversation. I’m not saying that world peace will happen on May 11, but I think that this is a small drop in the bucket—or first step toward—trying to get excited about somebody that could live halfway across the world. 3.FM: You’ve traveled and lived in several different parts of the world. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you want to be? JN: That?...
...America refuses to have a carbon cap unless China does too. That's a non-starter for China, since the U.S. has been spewing C02 for more than a century, and virtually all of those emissions are still in the atmosphere. China will follow us but not match us step for step, so the trapdoor would basically kill the deal. McCain economic adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin recently floated the trapdoor position in an interview with the online environmental magazine Grist, but McCain quashed it in his Portland speech, promising action no matter what China does. "If the efforts to negotiate...