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This is Venture Point, 15 minutes northeast of Campbell River by air, one of 91 salmon farms licensed to operate in British Columbian waters. They produce some 50,000 tons of salmon a year, most of it destined for the U.S. market. Young men work their way along the floating walkways around the 10,000-sq.-ft. pens, tossing brown food pellets that are met by a swirl of fish. In these 12 pens, there are about 1 million salmon, each a delicious, silver-sided beauty, and when harvested in 18 months, they will fetch more than $10 million...
...exhibition also includes 16 pieces from the Harvard-owned Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington. Dumbarton Oaks’ premier collections in Byzantine and Pre-Columbian eras were a gift to Harvard from Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss...
...have been responsible for the disappearance of more than 100 species of large animals like the woolly mammoth, hunted mainly for food [SCIENCE, June 18]. Stone Age hunters didn't have to use "pointy sticks" to kill the megafauna. They might well have employed the techniques of pre-Columbian hunters in North America who killed large numbers of bison by herding them over cliffs. The Stone Age megafauna may have quite literally been "driven to extinction." JOSEPH J. CARVAJAL Brevard...
This collection is notably strong in African, pre-Columbian and post-1945 art. But many families start out in the Gateway Gallery, with its family-oriented exhibits and Discovery Room. Its current interactive display, "Stories in Art," includes a three-dimensional version of The Peaceable Kingdom. "I don't know if this kind of space is a part of all museums, but it should be," says Jeff Dole of Dallas, who often takes kids Andrew, 11; Jack, 3; and Jena, 1. "I want to instill in my children a way to express themselves, whether musically or artistically...
Most of the language schools are in the pre-Columbian city of Quito, although a score have opened in Cuenca, a mountain community 35 minutes by air to the south. Nearly half the language students are more than 40 years old, with as many from Europe as the U.S. They study Spanish to prepare for travel, to scout retirement sites--or just to learn something new. They are attracted by Ecuador's diverse cultures and spectacular topography. Off-hours, the adventuresome can trek in the nearby Andes...