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...were effectively filtering the entire estuary - the country's largest - every few days, according to Rowan Jacobsen, author of the recent book A Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur's Guide to Oyster Eating in North America. "If we can get oysters [back] to historic levels they can make a huge difference," he says, but his dream of a return to oyster's golden age - in the late 19th century when 100 million lbs. (more than 45,000 metric tons) of oysters were harvested from the Chesapeake every year, versus today's 250,000 lbs. (113 metric ton) haul...
Grossman referred to hard-core video-game fans as "an invisible subculture." Here I am, 24 years old, loving life. I've got a great job and a huge circle of great friends, and I will be getting my M.B.A. in a couple of years. I know a bit about art and music, and I get daily updates on world events. And I love video games. How is a well-crafted game (of which there are a good bunch) different from a good novel? Angel Darquea, SANTA MONICA, CALIF...
...these days is who will follow Putin as President. Unlike in Washington, there are no unauthorized leaks. There are few off-the-record chats. So when Putin named a little-known financial investigator named Viktor Zubkov Prime Minister, it surprised everyone. State-owned TV had spent the summer giving huge amounts of exposure to two tough-guy Putin proteges who seemed the likely successors, but Zubkov's appointment, first described as a feint, is now looking like an actual succession...
...Northern Rock, the U.K.'s fifth-biggest mortgage provider, came unstuck when the wholesale loan markets it leans on for a huge slice of its funds dried up amid the global squeeze on credit triggered last month. An emergency, short-term credit line, agreed with the Bank of England late last week, was supposed to reassure savers their cash was safe. Northern Rock, insisted the Financial Services Authority over the weekend, was "open for business...
...break up a terrorist cell bent on amassing and purifying a huge cache of highly explosive hydrogen peroxide, the German authorities looked not only far and wide, but right in their back yards. Over the course of many months, hundreds of security agents worked together to uncover the plot, overcoming hurdles of logistics and imagination that tripped up American authorities in the months before September 11th...