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Jun 23 2008, Sonu Purohit

With scant regards to the sexual life of whales, the International Whaling Commission, a treaty organization grouping 80 countries, is seriously debating a possible resumption of commercial whale-hunting. If the IWC lifts its 12-year ban on whaling, it.

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