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Idea: To save one tune, save two

By TIMES WIRES
Published November 3, 2006

Gulf of Mexico yellowfin tuna makes a fine meal. Bluefin tuna, prized in Japan, has become scarce and is under strict fishing limits. Though bluefin are caught mainly in the Atlantic, they do spawn in the gulf and are inadvertently caught by long-line boats that target yellowfin. An environmental group's solution: Ask a judge to shut down yellowfin fishing during the bluefin spawn. That's what Earthjustice requested in a lawsuit filed this week against the National Marine Fisheries Service. Yellowfin boats, mainly out of Florida's Panhandle and Louisiana, would have to shut down for six months.

Vote machines can't tell time

Did Florida's touch screen voting machines fall forward? Volusia County Elections Supervisor Ann McFall was worried the machines don't know that daylight savings time is over and will shut off an hour early Tuesday. No worries, said a spokesman for machine maker Diebold. Only election officials can shut down the machines. One mystery down, one to go: Why didn't McFall know that?

Oprah project has local impact

Every member of Oprah Winfrey's studio audience Monday went home with $1,000 to donate to charity and a DVD camera to document the story for a future show. Kim Masetti of Lithia was in that studio audience and is using her $1,000 to buy iPods and download soothing music for chemotherapy patients at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa. More than 100 patients a day undergo chemotherapy at Moffitt. "Music is relaxing," Masetti said. "Hopefully, it will make the time pass a little quicker."

[Last modified November 3, 2006, 01:44:40]