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...Anti-whaling activists accused a Japanese harpoon ship of intentionally ramming and sinking their high-tech boat, the Ady Gil, during what has become an annual confrontation between whale hunters and activists in the southern seas. One crew member, a cameraman hired by Animal Planet for the reality TV show Whale Wars, sustained minor injuries in the incident, but Australia's Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, said after the incident occurred on Wednesday that it was "miraculous that lives were not lost...
...Though an international moratorium on commercial whaling has been in place since 1986, Japanese whalers use a provision - some say a loophole - that allows whales to be killed for research. This summer in the southern hemisphere, Japan aims to cull 985 whales for scientific purposes, according to a Reuters report. Though their boats are emblazoned with the word "Research," much of their catch ends up on the plates of Japanese consumers, not in labs. Japan's ICR says that the income from whale-meat sales funds scientific research and that international law mandates that it not waste the meat...
...several months combing through thousands of images, searching for pictures that give extra insight into the events of 2009. We looked for impact, like Dennis M. Sabangan's photo of people displaced by floods in the Philippines; for surprises, like the shot Kate Westaway took of a playful humpback whale while she was snorkeling; and for poetry, like Douglas Mills' resonant picture of the Kennedy family at the burial of Senator Edward Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery - a poignant moment captured after all the other cameras had turned away...
...nation, and whose work becomes embedded in a nation's DNA. Herman Melville and Mark Twain are two of America's great writers, for instance, but only the latter is essential. Foreigners striving to understand the American psyche might find it useful to know about Ahab and the whale, but they must know about Huck Finn and the mystique of the Mississippi River...
Okay, here’s what I’m thinking: a big old beached whale wants to leave the beach again. A wizard comes to help. A coal miner empathizes. A local marine biologist, perhaps George Costanza, wants to take the whale home, but doesn’t know how to do it, as he isn’t interested in taking it in a box or a bag. Honestly, your guess is as good as mine. Check the YouTube “misheard” lyrics for a pretty astute play by play...