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| 3/9/2005 | |
| In the thirty years since the cruise ship business became a major industry, taking cruises has become a vacation phenomenon. People seem to love the aspects of cruises that make them different from other vacations—easy-going trips to exotic locations, constant service, seclusion and famously good and plentiful food; since 1980, the number of passengers cruising out of North America has increased from 1.4 million to 7 million in 2000. Around the globe, 12 million people took cruises in the year 2000. | |
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| 3/16/2006 | |
| Ocean fish are the last wild creatures that humans hunt for food on a large scale. The oceans once supplied a seemingly unending bounty of seafood, with codfish so plentiful off the coast of New England, fishermen merely needed to dip baskets into the water to catch them. Today, many of our nation’s commercially important fish populations (or what fishery managers call “stocks”) are fished at unsustainably high rates, with some, like New England cod stocks, fished down to historic lows, endangering the future of not only the fish stocks, but our nation’s fishermen. | |
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