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Brundtland's announcement to resume whale hunting comes during the week of the International Whaling Commission's annual meeting. Originallydesigned to set quotas for whaling countries, thecommission now serves primarly as a conservationorganization, according to Philip J. Clapham,director of population studies at the Center forCoastal studies...
Iceland, Norway and Japan--the world's threeprincipal whaling nations--now say new scientificevidence proves that certain whale populations arenot in danger of extinction, and would be unharmedby regulated commercial whaling, Clapham said...
...whaling countries argue that Europeancountries' bans on whaling are impositions ofcultural values, and argue that "you kill cows, wekill whales, that's the same thing," Clapham said...
Christmas comes but once a year -- for which Londoners can be thankful, since the Irish Republican Army has chosen to mark the season with terrorist attacks. Last week a bomb exploded at London's Clapham Junction, the country's busiest railway intersection. No one was injured, but an estimated 500,000 commuters were affected and the city's businesses could lose around $90 million...
Monday morning, 8:13. The daily commuter train out of the prosperous town of Basingstoke, 46 miles southwest of London, was idling a quarter-mile from Clapham Junction, Europe's busiest railway intersection, while driver Alex McClymont used a trackside phone to report a faulty signal. Tragically, it was too late for that. McClymont watched in helpless horror as a packed express train from the Channel coast rounded the curve at 50 m.p.h. and slashed into the rear of the stopped train. Seconds later an empty passenger train on an adjacent track slammed into the wreckage...