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...whale meat does not taste good. I know from experience: as a reporter in Tokyo I once attended a whale food festival - there were whale noodles, whale sashimi, fried whale, whale on crackers - put on by Japanese whaling industry lobbyists for the country's legislators. But for all its forbidden mystique, whale meat tastes spectacularly bland - the sort of food you might eat only if there were nothing else available. (See the top animal stories of the past year...
...reaction of the Catholic Church is already clear. Bishop Bernard Fellay, the superior general of the SSPX, has silenced Bishop Williamson, forbidden him from making further public statements, and removed him as rector of the SSPX’s South American seminary. The Pope, too, has clearly stated that Holocaust denial is unacceptable. Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone has issued a statement requiring Bishop Williamson to renounce his views before assuming any episcopal jurisdiction...
...State Council's directive came after several months of vigorous initiatives to keep people employed. Last month, Wang Dong, head of Beijing's Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, announced that all state-owned enterprises in the Chinese capital are forbidden from laying off any of their 750,000 employees in 2009. In December and January, Premier Wen Jiabao visited local businesses in the city of Chongqing and in Jiangsu Province and pleaded with them not to "resort to redundancy easily, and to try to stabilize the employment situation by all means...
...best part of electronic dance music, though, is its versatility. It can satisfy a variety of different tastes, including either soft or hard beats and ranging in content from forbidden love stories to journeys of self-exploration. For math geeks, “Infinity 2008” by Guru Josh Project is sure to get you on your feet. Romantics should give “C’est Beau La Bourgeosie” by Discobitch a try. People into the Middle Eastern club scene will find a winner in Beirut Biloma’s “I Wanna...
...rules to observe, especially the most inconvenient one - that museums should not sell art from their permanent collections for any purpose other than to raise funds to purchase more art. By the guidelines of the several associations that represent American museums, emergency sell-offs to pay the bills are forbidden...