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...last several hundred years - since [Hugo] Grotius wrote his 'Freedom of the Seas' treatise [in 1609] we have had freedom to fish on the high seas, without constraints, but clearly for deep-sea bottom trawling this can't continue. And I am reasonably optimistic it can be stopped," says Matthew Gianni, Deep Sea Coalition co-founder, who became a conservation advocate 20 years ago, after a decade of trawl fishing off U.S. coasts. "If there is going to be a turning point I think the concerns and the process of negotiation that played out at the General Assembly will prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laying Waste to the Deep Sea | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...does a mind like that operate? Where many top money managers are content parachuting into a country and meeting with government officials and ministers, Leitner prefers to trawl around places such as Kenya, Zambia and Malawi, noting that "you never know what you will find off the beaten track." He's estimated to have amassed gains just shy of 30% annually for the past decade. Quite a find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hedge Fund Confidential | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

...culture, as a consumer niche, as a state of contrariness, the subspecies known as teenager wasn't even identified until World War II, the point at which British music writer Jon Savage's fascinating new book, Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture 1875-1945, ends. His 576-page trawl through the social commentary, memoirs and reportage of Europe and the U.S. in those decades shows how all the indicators of modern youth culture - the generational antagonism, the moral panics, the idealism, the shocking dress sense - were in place long before teenagers made a name for themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talking 'Bout Their Generation | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

...videos had left the Army but said he could still face official action. The ADF will now investigate whether any others involved in videos will be disciplined or dismissed from the force. "I'm very disappointed at the inappropriateness of some of the images when you trawl through all the stuff," Houston told Time. Defence Minister Brendan Nelson said he found the behavior depicted in the videos "offensive and unacceptable" and had asked for a full report on the ADF investigation. As to whether the Iraqis who appeared in the soldiers' videos had been warned that their safety might have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diggers' Web | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

...warrant was for the same John Mark Karr, but it seems likely.) The name John Karr is also associated with the online domain PowerWurks.com, apparently launched in 1996, whose owner claimed to be running a child-friendly company but also seemed to be using the e-mail address to trawl for young girls on the Internet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Neat Endings for the JonBenet Case | 8/18/2006 | See Source »

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