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Antiwhaling Wars Japanese fleet to meet resistance...
Conservation groups Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd have sent ships--some with battering rams--to intercept and possibly disable a Japanese whaling fleet in Antarctica early next month...
...crisis--it's hard not to wonder whether these initiatives are more than greenwashing. GE will sell wind turbines, but it will probably sell even more jet engines, contributing to the rising carbon emissions caused by air travel. Wal-Mart pledges to double the efficiency of its vehicle fleet over the next 10 years, but it's also eager to introduce hundreds of millions of Chinese to middle-class consumption, American-style. "I find it hard to look at a Wal-Mart and see anything like a truly sustainable company," says John Elkington, a co-founder of the green-business...
...only at the very end that Christianity makes a brief but portentous appearance, aboard a fleet of Spanish ships that appears suddenly on the horizon. JP and his long-suffering wife watch from the jungle as a small boat approaches shore bearing a long-bearded, shiny-helmeted explorer and a kneeling priest holding high a crucifix-topped staff. "Should we join them?" asks his wife. "No," he replies: They should go back to the jungle, their home. Roll credits...
Neither McCain nor Halsey could turn around quickly enough to rescue MacArthur’s outgunned “navy.” Nonetheless, Kurita’s fleet was badly bruised. By the end of the battle, according to Thomas, “the Japanese navy was effectively finished as a fighting force...