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...Plata, one of Spain's few remaining traditional tuna-trapping companies. To combat the tuna ranches, Sevilla and other trappers need to halt their prey long before it reaches the Mediterranean's open water. From late May, shoals of tuna begin their annual migration from the Atlantic through the Strait of Gibraltar, before spending one month breeding in the Med's temperate water. The traditional fishermen's contest against the industrial ranches has become so fierce during the past few years that some marine biologists and environmental activists fear it could threaten the very survival of the Mediterranean bluefin...
...Harvard), Taipei Mayor and Kuomintang (KMT) chairman Ma Ying-jeou is the frontrunner to become Taiwan's President in the next election in 2008. Ma, who turns 56 this week, spoke with Time's Zoher Abdoolcarim and Natalie Tso about the scandals swirling around President Chen Shui-bian, cross-strait relations with China and his vision for Taiwan...
...Under Chen, cross-strait relations have been frozen. How would you improve ties with Beijing? We would not pursue de jure independence ... We would resume negotiations on the basis of the 1992 consensus [forged during talks in Hong Kong]?in short, "one China, different interpretations." We would facilitate economic exchanges leading eventually to a common market. We would facilitate cultural and educational exchanges, like letting mainland students attend universities in Taiwan, because we have a surplus capacity and they are very short of that ... If the two sides get together, the chance of war will be minimized...
...Sixteen years after General Robert E. Lee's troops stacked their muskets at Appomattox Courthouse, the Confederacy's president, Jefferson Davis, recalled events of mid-1865 from a decidedly different perspective than that experienced by those aboard the Shenandoah and her fleet of captive whaleships amid the Bering Strait's ice-floes...
...Boreal dawns, ice floes, and burning whaleships hardly belong to our usual mental repository of Civil War images. Such scenes evoke Moby Dick more than they do The Red Badge of Courage. That the Shenandoah captured those ten whaling vessels in the Bering Strait more than two months after General Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse adds only more incongruity. But on June 28, 1865, the obvious ironies, much like Davis' solace, meant nothing to the men gathered off this Arctic shore. For the whalemen and the owners of the destroyed ships, the consequences were tragic. For Waddell...