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These possibilities include fatal illnesses, perhaps contracted from eating poisoned fish. Or startled reactions to the cacophony of a ship's engine. Or the sudden appearance of a predator. Some scientists have even linked whale groundings to magnetic anomalies that can play havoc with the internal compasses on which whales seem to depend for navigation. One scenario, however, has been pretty much dismissed in this case: disruption by underwater sonic booms from the powerful new U.S. Navy submarine-hunting sonar that recently inflicted fatal hearing damage on beaked whales in the Bahamas--and prompted an outcry from environmentalists when...
...States possess the military means for a forceful change of regime in Iraq ... [but] for the U.S. this might mean a decade-long presence in the region. If they ended their presence before the apropriate time, it would be we, the Europeans, who would be left to suffer the fatal consequences...
...asks, that victory has to be followed by a "complete reordering of the Middle East, above all politically?" This might "require a U.S. presence that could last for decades. But are the Americans truly willing to stay?" If not, "we, the Europeans, would be left to suffer the fatal consequences...
...French road deaths are attributed to speeding and 31% involve alcohol, the nation's judges are curiously indulgent to offenders. While punishment for most speeding violations is limited to fines, nearly 90% of all drunk drivers avoid prison through suspended sentences - and 40% of those convicted in fatal accidents never do time...
...scene in 1999 (previous cases had been documented in Africa, but never North America), the virus has been contained to the eastern U.S. This year, however, marks a southward shift from New York City's suburbs, where many previous infections had occurred: all five of the summer's fatal cases have been recorded in Louisiana. Many of the bugs appear to have headed south for the summer, in search of the water they crave and the moist, warm temperatures required for efficient breeding...