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Tilikum is not a first-time offender. In 1991 - eight years after he was captured off the coast of Iceland - he and two other killer whales drowned a trainer during a performance at Sealand of the Pacific in Vancouver. In 1999, a man who trespassed in SeaWorld after hours and apparently jumped in the whale tank was found dead the next morning, lying across Tilikum's back. Is the big whale a bad seed? At least one marine-mammal expert thinks that yes, that's at least part of the answer...
...much the same reason that humans lash out. "Even though whales are bright and very well trained, they can show aggressivity if they feel threatened or if they're in a bad mood," he says. "It can also be displacement, if they haven't had a good time with their pod members...
...TIME photo-essay on sharks...
University administrators and members of the Harvard Allston Task Force met for the first time with leaders of the Allston Work Team—the faculty-led committee charged with establishing recommendations for Harvard’s campus development—yesterday morning to discuss Harvard’s role in the Allston-Brighton community...
...University’s decision to halt construction on the $1 billion project—the first component of Harvard’s amibitious 50-year plan to construct a campus across the Charles River—left many Allston residents angry at the time, but, in their words, not surprised...