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...from her job as a computer specialist in Edinboro, Pa., and this is what she gets: a hard single bed with threadbare sheets in a sweltering, non-air-conditioned room; a warped desk and chair that would be rejected by Motel 6; and simple meals like baked beans or tuna casserole. And for the whole weekend she is supposed to be silent. But as she walks across the abbey's 2,200 acres, past the wheat fields and down by the river, or sits near a statue of the Madonna, watching white-tailed deer dance by and listening to bullfrogs...
...stayed the night there because he was worried about the encounter with Rudolph and about returning home. While he was gone, police believe Rudolph returned to Nordmann's house either late that night or Thursday and took 50 to 75 lbs. of food, including canned green beans, beets, corn, tuna fish, raisins and a large bag of wheat bran. He carried it away in Nordmann's 1977 Nissan pickup truck, which the store owner discovered missing when he returned home on Thursday. Police later found the truck at a nearby campground with a handwritten note from Rudolph inside. The contents...
After a lengthy debate in meetings over a month ago, the co-op elected to buy select lunch meats and tuna fish with co-op money, upsetting some vegetarians--many of whom could not attend the meeting, said Fleur Z. Weinstock...
...then, in 1991, trade came crashing in. Mexico brought an action against the U.S. under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (the WTO's predecessor). It claimed that American environmental law prohibiting the import of tuna from countries that killed too many dolphins violated international trade rules. And Mexico won. All those hours environmentalists had spent trudging through the corridors of Capitol Hill on behalf of dolphins had been undermined, overnight, by a far-off tribunal...
...that struck at the heart of the environmental movement. According to the GATT (and later the WTO), free trade meant that a country's laws might favor one kind of product over another but should generally not discriminate between two identical products just because they were made differently. The tuna exported by Mexico wasn't any different from the tuna caught by other countries: the fact that more dolphins died in the process was simply a different way of making the same product. For environmentalists, the threat was clear...