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...says Smith, "and we're doing our bit." The North Sea is two years into a cod-recovery plan, which is supported by fishermen and involves mothballing 20% of the fleet and increasing the mesh sizes of nets from 100 mm to 120 mm. The larger mesh size allows younger fish to escape and, it is hoped, breed. The target is to see an annual 30% increase in fish stocks. Park claims that the plan is working: "Cod has turned the corner. The stock is 27% bigger than last year...
...proved himself in the art houses abroad. But many mainland critics remained unimpressed, accusing him of "exoticizing" the nation's feudal past and poverty-stricken countryside for foreigners. They felt he should play cultural ambassador, using his camera to burnish China's overseas image. Chinese audiences share this ambivalence. Younger moviegoers have an almost universal description of why they dislike Zhang's fixation on the past and on the countryside: "The films are really just too far away from us," says Zhang's 25-year-old assistant, speaking of her boss's early work. "They have nothing to do with...
...guard” who were doing much of the speaking and the overwhelming youthfulness of the conference. Tensions occasionally came to a head: during the forum on gender, the panel of distinguished women began a traditional litany of demands only to find themselves heckled by younger women who exclaimed “How progressive is subsidized childcare if it means that I hire some poor immigrant woman and pay her less than I earn at my job?” or “Equal representation in Parliament is rubbish; any woman sitting as MP will sell us out anyway...
...ushered out the door. In 1999, CBS decided to hire Dick Enberg away from NBC rather than re-signing McDonough, the son of Boston Globe columnist Will McDonough. CBS’ choice to go with the then-65 year old Enberg rather than McDonough, who is twenty-two years younger, raised eyebrows in the industry...
...Crimson hopes to have Bullock back from the slight groin strain he suffered this week in practice. That, combined with the match experience Harvard’s younger players gained this weekend in his absence, should prove important in deciding Harvard’s fate...