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...most powerful thing you can do in conservation is to see what's at stake," says Linfield. "We wanted to show what's left...
Well, fortunately, I don't think that misconception has led people to do the same thing with killer whales that they do with sharks. They don't go out just to kill them. There are a lot of people who kill sharks for this huge shark fin industry. There's between a hundred million and two hundred million sharks that have been slaughtered for their fins while the carcasses of the bleeding sharks are dumped overboard. We're really very poor managers of our environment. (See the top animal stories of the past year...
...open the dual season 3-1, and she and captain Laura Peterzan have dominated doubles, posting an 8-0 record this season. Integrating the new members of the team and making sure they found their roles early was important for the upperclassmen. “The biggest thing that we focused on, especially in the first half of the season, was the freshmen,” Sibilski said. “We really wanted to make sure that they knew exactly what a team was. That can be difficult with tennis, so we wanted to make sure the freshmen knew...
...Some of the “positive” effects of technology have, indeed, backfired on us. There is such a thing as being too connected with technology, too inundated with information, and too out of touch with the world around us. This leaves us no time for silent reflection and no peace unless we immerse ourselves in some exciting computer-generated fantasy. Perhaps it is time to unplug, disconnect, and go make our own more vivid adventures in reality...
Speaking from Germany, Kundermann said he was powerless to stop others from misusing his scientific work. "There's nothing we can do to defend ourselves against this kind of thing. There have always been people that were nonexperts and would take results out of context and use them for their political objectives," he said. "Information has always been misused...