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...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...
...area is popular among surfers and windsurfers, but there are also bike trails, a marine reserve and, between November and April, whale watching...
...matters," Wilson writes in The Future of Life. "Surely our stewardship is its only hope." Natural habitats provide priceless services to humanity, from climate control to water purification to the supply of our medicines. And what if future generations never have the opportunity to see a panda or humpback whale...
These possibilities include fatal illnesses, perhaps contracted from eating poisoned fish. Or startled reactions to the cacophony of a ship's engine. Or the sudden appearance of a predator. Some scientists have even linked whale groundings to magnetic anomalies that can play havoc with the internal compasses on which whales seem to depend for navigation. One scenario, however, has been pretty much dismissed in this case: disruption by underwater sonic booms from the powerful new U.S. Navy submarine-hunting sonar that recently inflicted fatal hearing damage on beaked whales in the Bahamas--and prompted an outcry from environmentalists when...