State data show that blue crab landings are off an average of 18%, and brown shrimp -- the season for which the industry is now gearing up -- is down 39% compared with the 2002-09 catch.

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One night as Churchill's "bear season" was gearing up, I sat down with Kevin Burke, a man who has lived with polar bears all his life, as both a Churchill native and a ranger in the deep bush country.

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ProShares offers two funds with bearish positions in the bond market, both with 2-to-1 gearing (meaning for every 1% move up or down in Treasury prices, the fund goes down or up 2%).

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The first tourist in space RICHARD GARRIOTT, a wealthy software entrepreneur and the son of an astronaut, has put down deposits with two of the firms that are gearing up to take private citizens into space.

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It probably doesn't come as much of a shock to you that plenty of texting goes down midnight-ish tonight, and naturally the carriers are gearing up for just such an onslaught.

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And by the way, I just want to warn you, even though we now have every committee in Congress having voted out a bill and we're closer than we've ever been, this is when the insurance companies are really going to start gearing up, because now they're -- their stock went down when the Senate Finance Committee voted out that bill.

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Maehara really cannot oppose restarting the nuclear reactors in light of the urgent need for power and the cost of both permanently shutting down all reactors (they have no spent fuel repository yet) and gearing up alternative sources.

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Teams in Uganda are taking an aggressive approach, including trying to track down anyone who came into contact with patients infected with the virus, and health workers have been gearing up to protect themselves and deal with an influx of cases.

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