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"The Cove" Continues to Disturb

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The film’s protagonist, Ric O’Barry, who trained the animals that played TV’s Flipper before he had a change of heart, indicts businesses like Sea World as being either overtly or tacitly complicit in the cruelty. The captivity industry keeps the slaughter going,” O’Barry charges in movie.

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Transit in Dubai

10,000 Birds

Safa Park can be visited in the confidence that you will easily be able to get a train or taxi back to the airport. Internet car hire broker sites are offering small cars for less than £20. I recently hired a car from Dubai airport through a brokerage site for less than £20. Consider using a hire car if you have sufficient time.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The authors trace the creation of swamps, wetlands, and meadows by farmers, and then the destruction of wetlands by the building of golf courses, the loss of meadows by the construction of train tracks. Norse was a Wall Street broker; John Kieran was a sports reporter and radio panelist.