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...complicated and mysterious fish--and surprisingly little is known about its life. Although great whites are a protected species along the California coast, elsewhere shark populations have been decimated by overfishing and finning (the illegal practice of slicing off a shark's fins and then tossing its body overboard). Great whites have always been rare and reproduce slowly, making them especially vulnerable to these threats. The World Wildlife Federation has named them one of the 10 species most likely to become extinct. The aquarium hopes that exposing the public to a live great white will educate and inspire conservation. "Great...
Another old story concerns "a certain maritime incident," also known as the children overboard affair. In October 2001, two days into an election campaign in which Prime Minister John Howard successfully portrayed his government as tough on border protection, ministers claimed that illegal immigrants aboard a fishing boat code-named SIEV 4 (suspected illegal entry vessel 4) had thrown children into the sea. This, government ministers suggested, was an attempt at blackmail: sailors from H.M.A.S. Adelaide, which had apprehended the vessel, would be forced to rescue the children, thus improving their families' chances of gaining entry to Australia. Defence Minister...
...military officers had differing ideas about exactly what had happened, but it gradually became clear to them that the first reports given to the government were inaccurate. Two inquiries have now established that military commanders told Reith before polling day that no children had, in fact, been thrown overboard. At the time, no one in the government moved to correct the record, and no inquiry was launched. Perhaps ministers believed that admitting they had misled the public would damage their re-election chances. It is still not clear how much Howard knew about the initial report's inaccuracy...
...from office in March. An apologetic Roh told Koreans his impeachment was "all the result of my own shortcomings," adding, "I'll try not to disappoint you again." The day before, a vermilion-robed Yun Young Chul, president of the Constitutional Court, ruled that the National Assembly had gone overboard in impeaching Roh for a minor violation of the election law. On two other charges, economic mismanagement and corruption, it ruled that the assembly hadn't proved its case. The court's verdict: Roh gets to remain in the Blue House, South Korea's presidential residence...
...Kerry get it? On the Bay Hap River on March 13, 1969, a mine exploded under Kerry's boat, driving shrapnel into his arm and knocking Green Beret Jim Rassmann overboard. Despite heavy fire, Kerry turned the boat around and pulled Rassmann back on board with his good...