Word: whaled
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...would appear KEIKO has a problem with his own kind. After starring in three Free Willy films as a youth, the photogenic killer whale lived in aquatic parks, where he became accustomed to humans. Worldwide protests against his captivity led his handlers to release him off the coast of Iceland in July. Now, however, he has turned up in Norway, seeking adoration and herring from Homo sapiens, around whom he seems most comfortable. Some Norwegian salmon fishers complained that Keiko was scaring off their catch, and one scientist suggested he be killed for his own good. Norwegian officials offered last...
...sublime film on view, was Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, the animated fantasy that broke Japan's all-time box-office record a year ago and is now opening in North America. The People's Choice Award, voted by the festival's audience members, went to Niki Caro's Whale Rider, the New Zealand saga of a Maori girl who dreams of being her tribe's first female chief. It is an old-fashioned story smartly told, and enchantingly played by young Keisha Castle-Hughes...
...THAR SHE BLOWS Those with time to spare?lots of time?might consider a side trip to Lamalera, on the island of Lembata just east of Flores, where subsistence whaling has been practiced for centuries. Depending on the currents and swell, it can be anything from a four-to seven-hour odyssey in a small, pitching craft from the Flores town of Larantuka. Sometimes months go by without a single whale sighting, but if you happen to be present when a bull sperm whale is harpooned you will think you've been swept back to the days of Nantucket whaling...
...sense in the Republican Party that it is time for Bush to move on--and a growing apprehension that he cannot find the ways and means and words to do so. On one level, much of the worrying comes down to Iraq and whether it has become his white whale. Even among those who know Bush well there is remarkable disagreement and uncertainty about his state of mind on the subject of regime change. Some of these advisers say he is merely looking for a graceful way out of a commitment he should not have made so dramatically...
...Pilot-Whale strandings are nothing new for Cape Cod [Science, Aug. 12]. Henry David Thoreau, writing in the mid-19th century in his book Cape Cod, described beached whales. That was long before people started theorizing that agricultural runoff and global warming might be tainting the food chain and causing marine-mammal deaths. LEN SURETTE Santa Ynez, Calif...