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...fish a day. Bowing to international pressure, the Canadian government virtually banned seal culling - which was aimed at reducing numbers and hence their impact on fish stocks - in the 1980s. From under 2 million in the 1970s, the Canadian seal herd has today risen to over 5 million. In the waters around Britain, the gray seal population has risen from fewer than 45,000 in 1984 to over 124,000 in 2000. "Though the seals could never have reduced the cod population from the high abundance it once had," says Rice, "there is no question but the seal predation...
...only is he determined to work within the mainland's still conservative system, but he views the task of making movies that satisfy both censors and his own artistic standards as a healthy exercise?one that has forced him to become a better filmmaker. With Hero, he has risen to that challenge...
...denies that stereotypes have influenced its policies, of course, and it seeks refuge from critics behind a veil of statistics. After all, studies show that HIV incidence remains much higher among gay men, even though prevalence among heterosexual males has risen dramatically in the past decade. The CDC reports that in the year 2000, gay men accounted for the majority of reported HIV infections among male adolescents and young adults in America, even though gay men make up less than 10 percent of the population by most estimates...
...five were paid nearly $70 million last year, a total that has risen every year for the past three years. The top individual salary this year came in at $17.5 million...
...parents, the worry list is now a little longer. Large-scale outbreaks of food poisoning from school meals have risen on average 10% each year, from 25 outbreaks in 1990 to 50 in 1999, sickening a total of 16,000 children across the country with everything from salmonella to hepatitis A, according to a report released by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) last spring. While undoubtedly unpleasant, most of those illnesses ran their course in a few days...