Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe
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 Some chimpanzees, for example, have learned to use twigs for fishing out termites from a hole, a skill that gives a chimp colony a competitive advantage over its neighbors, who may be starving for lack of termites. No chimpanzee is born with this termite-fishing skill. It does not pass on to the next generation through the genes. Instead, it can be spread directly from one chimp brain to another through a teaching process, pervading a chimp population almost overnight. For this reason, Dawkins would say that termite fishing is a meme. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In Arctic Norway, they have a very stringent fishing policy. This ensures that the waters will never be over-fished in regards to cod fishing. Fines can go upwards to a quarter of a million dollars for a fisherman who exceeds what is allowed. There are only a certain number of fishermen certified at one given time. The Norwegian Ocean Institute goes to check the health and tonnage of various species of fish. They make sure their waters are stable and not experiencing any drifting populations. Over-fishing really isn't an option in Norway. |
Melody Petersen
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 As part of the deal, ads for Cialis played during the popular fishing lessons that aired each Sunday on ESPN in the show Bassmaster University. Lilly also put promotions for Cialis on the national Bassmaster website, as well as on similar websites used by local groups of fishing enthusiasts in many states. In Tennessee, when kids went online in 2005 to see who among their young friends had won the Junior Bassmaster contests, they found a promotion for the erectile enhancement drug and with a click could be transported to a site where Lilly was giving away free Cialis pills. |
Carlo Petrini
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 For example, we should sound the alarm about fishing, which must be sustainable and must not irreparably exhaust reserves of fish; the state of the seas is perhaps even worse than that of the soil when it comes to pollution, the reduction of biodiversity, overfishing, and intensive exploitation for food purposes.4"
Deindustrializing agriculture means rejecting a system. It is not just a question of introducing techniques different from the present ones such as small-scale production, organic farming, and biodynamics. |
Melody Petersen
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| Over the weeks I spent in Iowa, I found prescription drug advertisements on scoreboards at a golf tournament, in bass fishing magazines, and in the small weekly newspaper of my hometown, population 810. The marketers' announcements came over the radio, the television, and the loudspeaker in a drugstore in Des Moines. Even if Iowans turned off their television sets and threw away their magazines, the pharmaceutical companies had ways of reaching them. I found the medicine promoters at the mall, on college campuses, and sitting on the board of a local chapter of the American Heart Association. |
| His wages were enough to support his wife, Sadie, and their four sons and still pay for things like an annual trout fishing trip to Colorado. A burly guy, he had also worked construction and built roads, bridges, or, in his words, "just about anything." But that year he had not felt well. Three years earlier doctors had diagnosed him with Type 2 diabetes. The disease allows excess sugar to build in the blood. If not controlled, diabetes exacts a terrific toll on the body, causing disabling complications like blindness and even early death. |
Mark Lynas
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 Fish populations will also suffer on both sides of the Atlantic: whilst salmon populations will diminish in Canada, North Sea cod will be virtually wiped out because of warming waters unless a total ban on fishing is introduced.
In the unemotional lottery of global warming, whether you eat will depend on where you live. Inhabit a rich country with reliable rainfall, and you won't go hungry - even if traditional meals like fish and chips have to change with the times. But live in the drier subtropics and life will become increasingly precarious. |
Devra Davis
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 Late in 1975, the once productive James River was shut down for fishing.
In 1978 Love Canal in upstate New York became a national byword for pollution. The census tract around Love Canal contained 4,897 people, surrounded by streams to the north and west and the Niagara River on the south, with a rural area to the east. President Jimmy Carter ordered the evacuation of 225 households while federal investigators combed through residues of past wastes. The nationwide scope of the problem was staggering, as one analyst noted. |
| We were fishing one time and some water moccasins came up like a horror picture and they swiveled like this." She shook her wrists quickly as though they were about to fly off.
"One snake actually started chasing us. These things were mean and angry, not like normal snakes at all."
The residents of Mossville shut the doors and windows of their homes to smoke and fumes, but couldn't shut their bodies from pollution that entered their water and food. |
Joseph Campbell
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| In the Banks Islands of the New Hebrides, if a young man coming back from his fishing on a rock, towards sunset, chances to see "a girl with her head bedecked with flowers beckoning to him from the slope of the cliff up which his path is leading him; he recognizes the countenance of some girl of his own or a neighboring village; he stands and hesitates and thinks she must be a
Fig. 4. Ulysses and the Sirens mae;" he looks more closely, and observes that her elbows and knees bend the wrong way; this reveals her true character, and he flies. |
| And if this be true of the comparatively simple folk mythologies (the systems of myth and ritual by which the primitive hunting and fishing tribes support themselves), what may we say of such magnificent cosmic metaphors as those reflected in the great Homeric epics, the Divine Comedy of Dante, the Book of Genesis, and the timeless temples of the Orient? Until the most recent decades, these were the support of all human life and the inspiration of philosophy, poetry, and the arts. |
David R. Montgomery
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 Crop yields began to fall. fishing became more difficult after the loss of the native palms whose fibers had been used to make nets. As access to food decreased, the islanders built defensive stone enclosures for their chickens—the last food source on the island not directly affected by loss of trees and topsoil. Without the ability to make canoes, they were trapped, reduced to perpetual warfare over a diminishing resource base that ultimately came to include themselves as their society unraveled. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Wennberg spent his summers at Spirit Lake, on the flanks of the volcano, fishing and working at a YMCA camp. In the winters, as a teenager, he served on the ski patrol on Mount Hood. Although Wennberg excelled in science and math, he graduated from Stanford in 1956 with a degree in literature, intending to get his Ph.D. in German literature and teach. But when it came time to read the Bible in Gothic, Wennberg realized he was more interested in science than words. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 The herb is traditionally hung over doorways and on fishing boats or worn in a medicine pouch as a protective amulet. It is also sometimes burned as incense or prepared as a bath herb for spiritual purification. The powdered root can be used as a deodorant. |
| Nettles may also derive from the Latin nassa, "net," in reference to the plant's strong stems being woven into fishing nets. |
| Fibers can be peeled from the leaves after they have been soaked; the fiber is used to make shoes, rope, mats, fishing line, brooms, paintbrushes, baskets, and sewing needles. The core of the plant's center stalk can be used as tinder.
The roots of Y. filamentosa were once pounded by native peoples and added to corralled fish to stupefy them. The juice from the leaf was used to make poison arrows.
Steroidal saponins extracted from yucca have been found to improve the growth rate of alfalfa, citrus trees, onions, potatoes, strawberries, and tomatoes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| This ensures that the waters will never be over-fished in regards to cod fishing. Fines can go upwards to a quarter of a million dollars for a fisherman who exceeds what is allowed. There are only a certain number of fishermen certified at one given time. The Norwegian Ocean Institute goes to check the health and tonnage of various species of fish. They make sure their waters are stable and not experiencing any drifting populations. Over-fishing really isn't an option in Norway. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Bailey assured the companies that CTFA will "make sure these are legitimate requests and not just fishing expeditions." These will be "pretty rare events ... I don't think they're going to be lining up at the door ... [but] in talking to my former colleagues at FDA, they are aware of this and they are going to be knocking on some doors."
2. New industry website: The new CTFA website will enable consumers to search for cosmetic ingredients and get a message about safety. |
Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D.
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 Fish and Seafood
Surrounded by the ocean and its abundant resources, Okinawans have always respected it, and fishing has been a big part of their lives. In many small villages, people still believe the ocean gods provide them with fish, shellfish, and seaweed. After a good catch, the men in these villages make a circle on the beach and offer fish to the gods before bringing their share home. There's even an annual first-fishing ceremony day, when boys just turned thirteen leave school in the middle of the day and are initiated into the village fishing activities. |
David R. Montgomery
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| As in other Paleolithic hunting cultures in southern Europe, an almost exclusive reliance on hunting large animals in central Italy gave way to more mixed hunting, fishing, and gathering as forests returned after the glaciers retreated. Thousands of years later, sometime between 5000 and 4000 bc, immigrants from the east introduced agriculture to the Italian Peninsula. Sheep, goat, and pig bones found along with wheat, barley seeds, and grinding stones reveal that these first farmers relied on mixed cereal cultivation and animal husbandry. |
Dan Buettner
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 LIFE CHANGES
Midway through the project, our online audience voted for my team to travel to Ogimi, a tiny fishing village, to interview a 104-year-old woman named Ushi Okushima. Sayoko and I had visited with her before when I had profiled her in my National Geographic article. She'd impressed us with her amazing vigor, saying she grew most of her food and hosted drinking parties for her friends. Since turning 100, she'd somehow become a media darling. It seemed like every major news organization in the world, including CNN, the Discovery Channel, and the BBC had come to see her. |
Devra Davis
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| Tall grasses claimed the space of what had once been a vibrant hunting and fishing community.
In Mossville, the lucky ones who were still alive collected money from Conoco and Condea-Vista before they left the town. But there was one catch, as an investigator told me. |
Dan Buettner
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| They probably survived by hunting, gathering, and fishing. Agriculture came to Sardinia about 6,000 to 7,000 years ago with a Neolithic people from the Levant, where agriculture had been developed at least 3,000 years earlier.
"Our Y-chromosome data suggests that contact with these people from the Levant was mainly cultural rather than genetic," Francalacci said. For that reason, the people of Sardinia remain genetically distinct from the rest of Europe. Some of their unique traits are negative, such as higher incidences of type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis. |
Melody Petersen
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| Lilly also put promotions for Cialis on the national Bassmaster website, as well as on similar websites used by local groups of fishing enthusiasts in many states. In Tennessee, when kids went online in 2005 to see who among their young friends had won the Junior Bassmaster contests, they found a promotion for the erectile enhancement drug and with a click could be transported to a site where Lilly was giving away free Cialis pills. That website included a photo of a couple kissing on a dock by a lake as well as lessons on "sexual health. |
David Steinman
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 All the fishing boats in the world cannot sustain or save an industry; in the end, only the fish in the sea can.
That means we have to put a value on populations and what the oceans hold in reserve as our assets.
If any industry knows about having something in reserve, it is insurers. These businesses are certainly forcing other businesses to recognize and deal with global warming and environmental issues. This is causing changes in business practices and pushing even reluctant industries into the green business consciousness.
Here's an example. |
| He wanted to take me fishing at a lake he had found. I asked Bryant how he became interested in forests. Wth his hands on the wheel, we passed through the tiny gasoline-station towns along one of the back roads. He told me all of his life he had traveled the world and been exposed to forests in a most unique manner. As it turned out, his father posed as a forest industry executive traveling the globe to recruit agents to spy on the Russians in Africa and Europe. "I grew up in Africa and Asia and lived in the forests and so many wild lands I don't think you could resist the temptation. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Since gallstones are porous, they can pick up or absorb toxins, bacteria, viruses, parasites and cysts that are passing through the liver, like fishing nets collect fish. The stones can become a constant source of infection, supplying the body with an ever-increasing number of fresh bacteria. The attempt to permanently cure intestinal bloating, cystitis, Candida, stomach ulcers, infectious diseases or any of the above conditions is likely to fail if the bacteria-harboring gallstones are not removed from the liver. |
David Steinman
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| Commercial reef netting began in Whatcom County around 1935 as a modernized version of Salish Indian fishing methods. At first square-ended boats that were forty or so feet long were used and required eight to twelve fishers.
Today, with diminished stocks and fewer and fewer fish, Barlean, a fine mechanic and welder, turned his pontoons into heavy-pulling winching stations. Big marine batteries on the deck powered the handmade winches. Instead of needing a crew of eight to twelve, he could work his net with Jason alone.
"Be careful on this deck," Barlean said. |
| Today, I suspected, he, Jason, and I were the only men in North America about to go reef net fishing in waters anywhere in North America. I jumped down off the seawall and walked up to the water. The beach was made up entirely of seashells, big balls of kelp, smooth stones, gravel, and not much sand. I heard crunching under my boots. I was glad I had on a set of skins.
The wind was blowing so hard it made me want to hide. The water rushed in against the shore in cold little mean waves.
I looked far out to sea and saw the little catamaran pontoons. |
| Ceremonies and legends related to salmon and salmon fishing, with names such as The First Salmon Ceremony and The Tale of the Salmon Woman have been passed down through generations and provided evidence of the sacred relationship between the Lummi history and culture and the salmon.8 Beginning with the white man's arrival, however, the salmon population went into sharp decline."
"I started out working in Kodiak dragging for King and Dungeness crab," Barlean told me. |
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