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Only one of four species hunted for shark-fin soup, the porbeagle, was granted protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

...love. Leaning over a 150-lb. (70 kg) yellowfin tuna, the 55-year-old American, whose business is exporting fish, circles his forefinger around its deep eye socket. "Look how clear these eyes are." He traces the puncture where the fish was hooked, and the markings under its pectoral fin where it struggled on the line. "Sometimes," Heitz says, "I see a good tuna, and it looks better to me than a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting for Tuna: The Environmental Peril Grows | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...make the same mistakes it did at its Paris resort by failing to tailor the Disney formula to local tastes, may have gone overboard in its efforts to adapt the Hong Kong venue to Chinese customers. For example, the park's restaurants originally planned to serve shark's fin soup, a Chinese delicacy, until environmentalists protested. But the biggest knock against Hong Kong Disneyland - of which the Hong Kong government owns 57% - is a lack of attractions. In July, Disney and the government moved to remedy that problem by announcing that three new attractions would be added over the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disneyland in Shanghai: A Second Try in China | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...progressive, prolific Wellwoods - prolific in both writing and childbearing, Olive and Humphry have a brood of seven - and their artsy friends and acolytes form the core of Byatt's novel, and they are an invigorating bunch. Fin de siècle England was bursting with new ideas and beliefs (socialism, suffragism, anarchism, free love), and Byatt's characters are exuberant participants, joining, lecturing, writing, rebelling, and navigating the fallout when their experiments (particularly in the free-love category) come to grief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mother Grimm: A.S. Byatt's Latest Novel | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...despite his distinctive voice, he barely makes any musical contribution to the song. Regardless of this circumstance, likely the fault of the producer, the song deserves praise for its poetic lyrics. “Y me despierto con el concierto de tu cabello en el mio, y un sin fin de un ‘te quiero’,” sings Furtado, which translates to “and I awake with a concert of your hair in mine and with an endless ‘I love you’.” Furtado?...

Author: By Giaynel P. Cordero taveras, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nelly Furtado | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

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