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Every year on the first of September, in a small town called Taiji on the southeast coast of Japan's Honshu Island, a new fishing season begins: the dolphin season. Twenty-six fishermen in 13 boats corral a few dozen dolphins into a small cove, where they kill the animals by stabbing them repeatedly with long harpoons and knives. The 50-square-foot (4.6-square-meter) inlet turns crimson, as if filled only with blood. In the course of a six-month season, fishermen kill roughly 2,000 dolphins and sell the meat to local supermarkets for about U.S. $500 a dolphin. The fishermen supplement their income by...

OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM, July 26, 2006 — Thunder Cove officially replaced Camp Justice as the new name of the Air Force housing area at the 40th Air Expeditionary Group in a renaming ceremony July 23. Col. Scott Vander Hamm, 40th Air Expeditionary Group commander, made the proclamation before unveiling a new sign with the Thunder Cove name leading into tent city. A new name for Camp Justice has been in the works since a contest kicked off in late May for airmen to submit name suggestions. A prize package, including a backpack, two shirts, $50 Ship Store gift certificate, massage...

<p>Ray Dushkin Jr. bent over to pick up a hatch on the deck of his grandfather's fishing boat. The next thing the 19-year-old knew, he was flying backward over the low railing and into the harbor at King Cove near the tip of the Alaska Peninsula.</p>