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...high-seas fishing nations - including Japan, South Korea, Russia, Iceland, Spain, France and the Ukraine - according to new research conducted by the University of British Columbia's Fisheries Centre. The subsidies defray substantial fuel costs - trawlers need a lot of power to move nets that weigh 15 tons and stretch a mile deep - keeping these boats working around the clock for weeks and months, mining the deep sea (it takes about four hours to fish...
...Museum is on the Bowery, a grimy but gentrifying stretch of lower Manhattan. So Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa gave it a home that's part funky, part shimmery, an asymmetrical stack of boxes covered by a honeycomb of aluminum...
...This predicament cannot last forever - but it can go on for a while yet. Normally the G.O.P. comes to a decision quickly, and the Democrats stretch the process into the baseball season, bickering over delegates, platform planks, rules and speaking rights before everyone swears loyalty to the long-settled nominee. All that, and possibly more, could happen on the other side this time. But Republicans have at least one organic strength that will help them weather this confusion: they are tops in a knife fight. So uncomfortable is the party with anything that resembles an unsettled race after New Hampshire...
...second half. Jesyka Burks-Wiley’s layup with 16:41 remaining pushed the Terrier lead to 50-40. In what was a game of runs all night—the Crimson responded to a 13-4 BU run in the first half with a 9-1 stretch of its own—Hallion and Harvard provided the final spark. Defensive intensity and renewed effort on the boards helped sustain the run that Hallion started...
...just 25 years old, Michael Blake may have more to do with Barack Obama's chances of becoming President than anyone besides the candidate himself. That may sound like a stretch, but Blake has the all-important job of bringing in new Iowa voters to caucus for the Illinois Senator. And while some campaigns may focus most of their efforts on one or two constituencies - the way John Kerry so successfully courted military veterans in 2004 - Obama is spending an unprecedented amount of money and effort to turn out a wide cross section of new caucus-goers...