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Monterey Bay Aquarium report: Demand for seafood leading to oceans’ decline

The Monterey Bay Aquarium has been working for years to improve the health of the planet's oceans, and today it has announced new collaborations to spread the word through chefs, seafood buyers and others. The aquarium, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, released a report today on the state of the oceans. Prospects for the oceans are improving with a growing consensus to manage wild and farm fishing, the report says

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Back to traditional farming to beat climate change

When organisers of an international conference on climate change and the food crisis first scheduled the event here for late September, little did they realise the event would be sandwiched by two typhoons buffeting the region. Ironically, the first typhoon, ‘Ketsana’, delayed the arrival of conference delegates from the Philippines

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‘Michael Jackson’s This Is It’: An Advance Look

New issue of Entertainment Weekly gives a look at what is called ‘somewhere in between’ a concert film and a documentary. By Gil Kaufman Michael Jackson in “This is It” Photo: AEG/ Sony Though he consented to have them filmed, Michael Jackson never intended for the world to see the sweat and blood he put into the four months of rehearsals for his planned comeback shows in London. But, with just two weeks to go before “Michael Jackson’s This Is It” opens in theaters, and sell-outs piling up across the country in anticipation of the movie chronicling the pop star’s final musical moments, this weeks’ Entertainment Weekly cover story looks at the scramble to make the movie.

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Top Chef: A Tale of Two Cancers, One Pig and a Mustache

Hello, It’s Joshua David Stein here, halfway through a beautiful bottle of pinot [noir!] It’s only 10:15am but it’s time to drunkenly discuss Bravo’s Top Chef somewhere, emmeyeright? A mustache grew in Las Vegas last night, on the upper lip of Charlie Palmer.

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Sleepless Benadryl-Crazed PR Man Just Wanted Some Wine, Officer

Washington, DC PR man David Bass has a perfectly good explanation for why he was charged with a felony for disrupting a flight: He was all hopped up on Benadryl! He was awake traveling for five three days ! He wanted wine! Much props to David Bass —who now works with plugged-in political PR firm Qorvis, [UPDATE: Bass actually left Qorvis a couple years ago, and is now with Raptor Strategies ] after serving as deputy publisher at the Weekly Standard—for not hiding behind a “no comment.” You can see how he might be embarrassed by the fact that the FBI said he “appeared drunk and abusive on the flight, demanding alcohol and refusing flight attendants’ orders to sit down.” Bass e xplained to Politico the stunning confluence of events that led up to his totally misunderstood behavior on the flight: Bass said he wasn’t drunk on the flight, but rather had been taking Benadryl for an allergic reaction. “I didn’t see any reason why I couldn’t get a glass of wine,” he said

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A Tale of Two Cancers, One Pig and a Mustache

Hello, It’s Joshua David Stein here, halfway through a beautiful bottle of pinot [noir!] It’s only 10:15am but it’s time to drunkenly discuss Bravo’s Top Chef somewhere, emmeyeright?

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Should Americans banish the burger?

(CNN) — Hamburgers are an American passion. And millions of Americans consume burgers, and other forms of meat, every day without consequences. But ground beef contaminated with E

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Letterman’s ‘Bombshell Bussing Incident’

It seems like the actual Letterman scandal broke so long ago, yet the straitlaced scoops about the straitlaced funnyman’s straitlaced affair continue, forever.

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Gourmet’s Dead. Don’t Blame The Internet.

The death of Gourmet has prompted plenty of maudlin remembrances. And plenty of suggestions as to why we should mourn it: the food, Ruth Reichl, the jobs, the beauty

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Jessica Simpson: Third Wheel

It sucks when your life is falling apart and everyone around you is happy and married and kissing and shit.

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