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    • Is It Hump Day Already?

      Posted by Jeff from Grist

      Japan's oft-criticized "scientific" whaling fleet will be extra busy this season as it aims to land up to 1,035 whales in what could be the country's largest whale hunt in modern times. Included in the toll: up to 50 humpback whales, the first time they've been targeted in some 40 years.

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      Japan: Drillers target earthquake zone

      Posted by Jeff from BBC News

      "The place we are going to has a history of disastrous earthquakes and tsunami every 100 or 200 years; and these have resulted in the deaths of many people," explained Chief Project Scientist Masataka Kino****a, from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (Jamstec). "There is a strong need in the Japanese community to know what is going on under the sea floor," he told BBC News.

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    Jeff comments on:

    New Photos Reveal Horror Of Hiroshima (GRAPHIC IMAGES)

    Except if they are arguing against the case of Iran’s nuclear capabilities – in that case, the pics are real and it could happen to you!

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    6:38 pm 5/04/08
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    pccannonfodder comments on:

    New Photos Reveal Horror Of Hiroshima (GRAPHIC IMAGES)

    The neocons know that those photos are fake, because the bodies look burned.
    The neocons know that heat rises, and so the nuclear bombs could never have
    caused any burns.
     

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    5:57 pm 5/04/08
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    Japan to ban resale of used electronics

    http://www.commontimes.org/read/27703

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    3:00 pm 2/22/06
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