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...just his third season in the minors was promoted to Cleveland’s AAA affiliate in Buffalo in July. Hermann saw his velocity rise by a few miles per hour after college, and Walsh suggests that the same thing could happen to Haviland with the transfer to warmer weather. If his one-time ace is going to ascend the ranks, though, he’ll live and die with his curveball...
...catch-share program in 1995. At the time, the halibut season had become a 48-hour scramble to catch the most fish allowed by law, according to Linda Behnken, director of the Alaska Longline Fishermen's Association and a commercial fisherman in Sitka since 1982. "No matter what the weather was, everyone with a line and hook was going out," says Behnken. "And this is Alaska. The weather gets bad here. Boats went down. Lives were lost." Things got even worse when the fishermen all returned with their catches at the same time, flooding the market and driving down...
Since the introduction of catch shares, however, Alaska's halibut season has gone from one or two short days to nine months. Fishermen are also less likely to risk bad weather, pushing fatalities down 15%. And because the market is no longer flooded with halibut one week out of the entire year, the price of fish has increased fourfold. "IFQs have made fishing safer," Behnken says. "And it's better for the resource...
...from Ohiri Field in over three weeks Tuesday night against Boston University. However, finding itself a goal down after less than five minutes of play was not the start the team had envisioned. This beginning was just the first of the many disasters that the Crimson would have to weather throughout the night. Harvard’s long anticipated second road triumph once again eluded the Crimson (3-3-0), as it was crushed by the Terriers (3-4-2) by a score of 5-1. “I think we played a BU team that?...
...Traditionally, human beings are not great at assessing this kind of risk - a peril that has not yet arrived and that is, in any case, hard to viscerally imagine. Witness people's reluctance to evacuate before hurricanes, and weather forecasts portend a danger far easier to comprehend than failing investment banks...