Blackfish doc looks at SeaWorld’s captive orcas

What the Oscar-winning 2009 documentary The Cove did for dolphin slaughter in Japan, Blackfish may do for killer whales living in captivity while performing at marine parks. Blackfish, explores what may have caused Tilikum, a 12,000-pound orca, to kill three people, including veteran SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010.

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Petraeus Zinger Wounds Air Force Egos

Having seen its prized F-22 fighter struck from the Pentagon’s budget by Defense Secretary Robert Gates — who also fired the service’s top two leaders last year — the U.S. Air Forces isn’t in a laughing mood these days. So, when they recently became the butt of a joke by Army General David Petraeus, now overseeing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, some of the service’s macho members felt wounded.

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