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...Japan, that it's just the rich north that wants to protect whales and dolphins, is nonsense," says Richard Page, oceans campaigner for Greenpeace. "Developing countries have been taking a hard look at the situation and are realizing the importance of protecting these resources." Will the committee have real teeth? Too often bureaucracies set up panels to deflect disputes rather than resolve them. It's too soon to tell for the IWC; its new unit has yet to get organized. Defeated pro-whalers are still grousing. But despite dark hints last week that it might now rethink its IWC membership...
Before she went on, Gilligan looked nervous, flipping through her notes and rubbing her teeth with her fingers...
...would be great for the kind of people who like to sink their teeth in a creative project,” Cohn says. “Of course, a possible new building would have been more attractive than a renovation, but it’s really a creative reconfiguring, they will have input…. It’s a chance to make a difference in the institution, and that’s really why people take jobs...
...family of white mice. My mother was there too, drawn in to the zoo by a rather inexplicable attraction to a version of my father in dark glasses and hair so huge it doesn’t fit in the yearbook photo that now gathers dust with my baby teeth and first grade poetry. Seen dimly through the warm light of memory, this campus was a crazy, permissive, nearly magical place where a mouse could survive the drop from a fourth-floor Eliot House window and where, if you only squeezed enough honey packets, you could make mead...
That decision outraged members of the United Front, who called it “a kick in the teeth, a slap in the face,” and laid the groundwork for a conflict which would last well into the early 1980s...