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Midnight. A 40-ft. boat pulls up, and an anguished murmur goes out from the 200 refugees on shore-the craft is too small. The buscones begin yelling and waving their machetes. Over two grueling hours, they crowd 111 people aboard the vessel; each passenger's legs spread to accommodate the person in front of him. When the voyage finally starts, there is no room to move. The ship is leaky and reeks of gasoline. Passengers vomit. Others sleep. By the time the sun rises, everybody is stiff and tense...
...March 9, a team of Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP, or 'Mounties'--the Canadian F.B.I.) attempted to board the Spanish fishing trawler Estai. When the attempt failed, the Spanish cut their fishing nets and attempted to flee. After a four-hour chase, the Canadian patrol vessel sent a burst of machine-gunfire over the bow of the Estai. The boat was seized and turned toward New-foundland, where the skipper will be charged under Canadian conservation law and the crew flown home...
...established and notorious reputation for devastating other countries' fishing grounds. The EU has excluded Spain from some of its own fisheries; when Namibia won independence in 1990, one of its first acts as a nation was to kick out the greedy Spanish. Canadian officials discovered that the seized Spanish vessel had been fitted with a second bottom for tons of illicit catch, and that it possessed illegal secondary nets to trap protected species. Many sources inside the EU say privately that there is "a lot of admiration for what Canada did." But at the same time, these sources recognize...
...portrayal of Church and its influence on Benny, however, is laughably cliched. From the scolding sermon ("Will your body be a garden of Jesus or a vessel of sin?) to the stock confessional scene ("Father, I have had impure thoughts"), the Church seems to be just about as much of an obstacle to these girls' sexuality as Dear Abbey would be to their American contemporaries...
...years, doctors have searched for ways to cut those crucial supply lines and, in effect, starve their patients' tumors to death. But the biology of blood-vessel growth is so complicated that most of their efforts have failed. Last week scientists from the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, announced that they may have found an effective strategy. In a study published in the journal Cell, the Scripps researchers report that they have discovered a single biochemical switch that triggers the growth of blood vessels in almost all tumors in laboratory animals. By knocking out the switch with...