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...Oshika whaleland museum in this tiny village in northeastern Japan, you can get your cetacean two ways: stuffed, in the form of a plush children's toy, or canned, for dinner. But you can't get it fresh. Although Ayukawa was once a bustling whaling port, a two-decade-long international ban on commercial whaling has all but killed the industry here. Now just a pair of companies occasionally ply nearby waters, roving for the Baird's beaked whales they're still allowed to harvest. It's the sort of insignificant game the whalers of Ayukawa would have thrown back...
...founder Stewart Brand, Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore and scientist James Lovelock have endorsed the once taboo energy source as a credible, clean alternative to coal- and natural-gas-powered plants. While most Americans still don't want a nuke plant in their backyard, some economically depressed areas, like Port Gibson, Miss., and Oswego, N.Y., are actively lobbying to be the home of a new reactor--and of all the jobs and tax revenue that come with it. Most important, the powers that be in Washington, including President George W. Bush and Republican leaders in Congress, are firmly behind nuclear...
Apparently Evans did not approve of students who chose to answer the call of nature not in the port-a-potties, but on the Ivy walls of the top-ranked Harvard Business School...
...Khartoum. The University’s most recent filings with federal regulators indicated that Harvard owned more than $3 million of stock in China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., or “Sinopec,” which is constructing a pipeline connecting oil fields to the coastal town of Port Sudan. The filings also showed that Harvard owned more than $2 million in Tatneft, a Russian company that signed a 2001 deal to explore oil fields in central Sudan...
...Khartoum. The University’s most recent filings with federal regulators indicated that Harvard owned more than $3 million of stock in China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., or “Sinopec,” which is constructing a pipeline connecting oil fields to the coastal town of Port Sudan. The filings also showed that Harvard owned more than $2 million in Tatneft, a Russian company that signed a 2001 deal to explore oil fields in central Sudan...