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	War in the Antarctic

Elisabeth Eaves

3-6-2008 12:32 PM

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Activists lobbing chemicals and trying to ram whaling ships. Hunted Japanese whalers wondering if they're allowed to shoot. The whaling war in the Antarctic is heating up, and for the moment the activists are winning: With the whaling season about to end, Japan has not even taken half the 900 Minke whales it planned to kill this year.

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