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...ensure a continued healthy population of the target species, the plentiful minke whale. In a country where only 3% of the land is arable, maintaining a small capability to obtain a domestic source of food means looking to the sea and managing the resource carefully. Helga Katherine Pratt Battle Ground, Washington, U.S. Your story seemed to suggest that all whaling is morally wrong, without distinguishing between harvesting endangered species and those that are plentiful, namely the minke whale. You stated that Norway "openly flouts" the rules of the International Whaling Commission (IWC). Although the IWC banned commercial whaling, Norway...
...mounting sense of persecution among young Muslims in India, combined with high unemployment and mounting anxiety about what many see as a global crusade against their religion, makes fertile recruiting ground for homegrown groups such as SIMI. Muslims resent the fact that four years after anti-Muslim riots killed more than 2,000 in the state of Gujarat, there have been few convictions. Police raids, detentions and the oft-reported abuses that occur under such detentions only add to their sense of being unfairly targeted. "Perceived injustice is the bedrock upon which all terrorist groups are based," says Bhatt...
...told me that my eldest son is very worried and my other son has stopped eating because he's scared. There's no space at my in-laws, so I slept in the car." His troubles haven't discouraged him from supporting Hizballah, however, and he even welcomed a ground invasion by Israel. "On the ground, they are weaker and we are stronger," he said. "We cannot retaliate against their military jets," he added. "It's not honorable to destroy a people who don't have equal military capability. Israel destroys, it doesn't fight...
...many earlier spasms of violence? Why the hate, and where is the healing? A British Royal Commission on Palestine had it right nearly 70 years ago: "An irrepressible conflict has arisen between two national communities within the narrow bounds of one small country. There is no common ground between them. Their national aspirations are incompatible." But why has there been no movement between these incompatibles in seven decades? Why has the two-state solution that every fair-minded observer has long endorsed been so difficult to establish...
...EADS's largest shareholders, the French government and Germany's DaimlerChrysler. Streiff, from Lorraine, speaks German. But as Warren Bennis, leadership guru at U.S.C., says, "Chemistry is less important here than deciding their collective definition of success." Perhaps they can start with getting the A380 off the ground. --By Kathleen Kingsbury...