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...report by the International Whaling Commission's scientific committee identified one species of whale, now being hunted in the northeast Atlantic, as so vulnerable that killing only one would adversely impact the population...
...what used to be called adult movies. Wasn't this supposed to be the Summer of Boys? Weren't the studios primed for pint-size blockbusters about 12-year-old emotional overachievers? Well, yes -- and the kids are at the movies too. Free Willy (a boy and his whale) has struck a heart chord; this inexpensive tearjerker will earn about $80 million. Rookie of the Year (a boy and his fastball) and Dennis the Menace (a boy and his grandparent surrogate) have won solid numbers, and Searching for Bobby Fischer (a boy and his pawn) may find fanciers. Enough kids...
...Beluga-whale committee...
...critics are human -- or a reasonable facsimile thereof. They like a good cry at the movies. They can get all sniffly and teary, just like real people, when somebody falls in love or dies. The candy shell of their heart can melt into chocolate when a kid hugs a whale. What separates critics from you is that inside the chocolate they must nurture the hard nut of cool judgment. They must know the difference between a good cry -- emotion earned by film artistry, as in E.T. or Greta Garbo's Camille or, for that matter, The Secret Garden...
Most endangered of all is the northern right whale. Nearly 60 years after hunting the species was forbidden by the League of Nations, only 350, at most, swim the waters of the Atlantic. One-third of right-whale deaths recorded since 1970 resulted from collisions with ships or accidental entanglement in fishing nets...