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...laud the proud Alaskan moose and the Pacific seal at City Hall every Earth Day. But no more. Damn penguins. Two hours of penguins mating and dying is enough to make you eat veal, stop cutting the rings on your soda can packaging, and dump oil into the Caspian sea. I’m an unwilling convert, but perhaps with a cheap handle of rum and a bottle of Coke, you can avoid my crisis of confidence. TAKE A SHOT… 1. Whenever the cameraman zooms in dramatically on a penguin’s feet. Three shots...
...HALTED. The global trade in STURGEON CAVIAR; by the secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES); in Geneva. CITES, which sets annual limits for caviar-exporting countries, has refused to announce quotas for 2006, effectively prohibiting the trade. Sturgeon populations in the Caspian sea region, which produces most of the world's caviar, are believed to have fallen 90% in the past 30 years. Two previous bans, in 2001 and 2002, failed to reverse the decline...
...Burnin,” as part of his current tour. Avalon. 7 p.m. Tickets available through Ticketmaster. $30. (MEE) Tarantula A.D. Tarantula A.D. celebrates its first full-length album “Book of Sand” with this performance. Attention Underground opens at 9:30, followed by Caspian at 10:30. T.T. The Bear’s Place. 11:45 p.m. Tickets available through Ticketmaster or at the door. $8 in advance, $10 day of show. (JDMC)PerformancesRuddigore, or The Witch’s Curse. Through Dec. 10. The Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players put on a classic...
These days there are other wildcatters running tiny public companies investing in places like Peru and the Caspian Sea, but no one else is negotiating with sovereign governments for million-acre leases on Van Dyke's scale. On a trip to Libreville, Gabon Van Dyke shook hands with President Omar Bongo, in power since 1967 and one of the most entrenched rulers in the world. Van Dyke has signed similar leases for the right to look for oil with the leaders of Morocco, the Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana and Madagascar...
...make a great big sale, probably to the Chinese, the Indians, going to keep about a 15% interest." A deal like that could make him a billionaire and, of course, set him up for the next big play. "We're looking at the Black Sea, Russia, maybe the Caspian Sea area. We're getting into tar sands--getting into that in a big way," he says. "That's what the next generation of wildcatting will be doing." Van Dyke plans to be there...