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"Cove" Movie Assails Dolphin Hunt, Gets Oscar Boost

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World, March 10, 2010 (Pal Telegraph,Nationalgeographic) -he Cove's makers and distributors counter that the movie won the Oscar because it was well made and worth seeing, and that the Oscar nod highlights people's concerns about the controversial [ … ]

The Business of Water: Privatizing An Essential Resource - by Stephen Lendman

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US, March 9, 2010 (Pal Telegraph)- In her 2002 book titled, "Water Wars," noted author, social activist, and ecologist Vandana Shiva called privatizing water:

-- ecological terrorism;

-- a global water crisis;

-- along with overuse, waste and pollution, it can cause "the most pervasive, most seve [ … ]

Chile-Earthquake Tsunamis Smaller Than Expected—But Why?

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World, Mar 1, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) -The giant earthquake in Chile that struck Friday-one of the most powerful ever recorded-killed more than 700 people and leveled cities. Yet the tsunamis spawned by the earthquake were smaller than expected, leaving experts speculating as to why. (See Chile earth [ … ]

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World, Mar 1, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) -Hawai'i Information and History

More than six million vacationers, most of them from the continental U.S. or Japan, spend close to 11 billion dollars a year in this tropical archipelago. Defense, centered on U.S. military bases at Pearl Harbor, is the second la [ … ]

Grizzly Bears Moving Into Canada's Polar Bear Capital

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World, February 28, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) -There may now be two kings of the Canadian tundra-grizzly bears sightings are on the rise in the polar bear capital of the world, a new study says.

The preliminary report notes an increase in grizzly bear sightings in Wapusk National Park, just south o [ … ]