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Anatoli Vlasenko, deputy director of the Caspian Research Institute of Fisheries, disputes reports of the beluga's demise. "The 90% depletion figure is a gross exaggeration on the part of the nervous media," he says. Still, the Russians have worked hard to sustain the remaining population with hatcheries and export quotas. Banning imports "would be the catalyst for a new round of poaching and illegal trade," says Armen Petrossian, head of the International Caviar Importers Association. Tariffs collected from the legal trade pay for the hatcheries that produce 97% of beluga swimming in the Caspian. Without revenues from the legal...
...recognition of a stressed-out undergraduate population, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 wrote a letter to incoming first-years this summer. In it he explained that “[Y]ou are more likely to sustain the intense effort needed to accomplish first-rate work in one area if you allow yourself some leisure time, some recreation, some time for solitude...” He went on to advise students to do less—specifically no more than one “major” and one “minor?...
...does Trek survive? The oft-cited answer is that freakish Trekkies--fans who saved the original series with passionate letters and today maintain an eBay market of 25,000 Trek items--still sustain the franchise. Wrong. Trek hasn't been a cult enterprise in years. It is, instead, a humming mainstream business that responds quickly to changes in mass culture. That's why the new film and TV show depart from the softer story lines of the '90s. Since Sept. 11, Star Trek has basically become an action franchise again. It's even trying to be sexier. But Trek...
...Spider-Man. Yet Star Trek has outlasted other brands over the years. (Suck a phaser, Batman.) How does Trek survive? The oft-cited answer is that freakish Trekkies - fans who saved the original series with passionate letters and today maintain an eBay market of 25,000 Trek items - still sustain the franchise. Wrong. Trek hasn't been a cult enterprise in years. It is, instead, a humming mainstream business that responds quickly to changes in mass culture. That's why the new film and TV show depart from the softer story lines of the '90s. Since Sept. 11, Star Trek...
Tyrrell said there are other options that would sustain the viability of the program even if it were declared unconstitutional when the court rules...