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...special permission to remain open 365 days a year. Like many small-business owners, Carlos Perez Gonzalez has no interest in working Sundays. "When do we rest?" asks the 61-year-old proprietor, who has managed his shop - selling 16 varieties of olives, 14 kinds of canned tuna - for the past 29 years. Gonzalez's establishment is located in a mercado, a two-story covered market where dozens of small stands sell fresh meat, fish, cheese, flowers and produce - sort of a Spanish prototype of a shopping mall. Of course, the mercado does not have a snow dome...
...work. "People want to expand the world we share with our dogs," says Bark editor and co-founder Claudia Kawczynska. Some of the nation's top hotels have developed dog perks. Raffles L'Ermitage in Beverly Hills, Calif., offers room service for pets, with a menu that includes tuna tartar with anchovy essence ($19), poached salmon belly with frothed milk ($23) and caviar with hard-poached eggs ($98). Upon checking into the Beverly Hills Hotel, a dog is met by a greeter who escorts him to his room, where he'll find a pink doggie bed, pink tennis balls...
Biologist Ransom Myers of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia led a team of researchers in examining the logbooks of U.S. fishing boats operating in the northwestern Atlantic from 1986 to 2000. The fleets were hunting swordfish and tuna using what are known as longlines, cables stretching as long as 20 miles that are equipped with more than 500 baited hooks. Toss a line overboard, and up should come your desired prey--plus a lot of other hungry fish that you didn't mean to snag. "Longlines are designed to collect large marine predators," says biologist Julia Baum, lead author...
...class and place, he has bent himself to a job (as an insurance company actuary) that is at once dull and intricate and to a city (Omaha, Neb.) where the agreed-upon illusion is stability. Schmidt is probably in touch with certain things: his football team, his wife's tuna-noodle casserole and, at this season of the year, his snowblower. What he is not in touch with is his feelings--in particular, with his anger. He would deny its very existence, or that of any other emotion that might upset the even tenor of his days...
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