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And for the first time, wild they would have to take care each ers and contributors whose work the festival was held in this marine park. second not to end up in the holds of a and engagement makes X-Ray (Find a report on the festival on page 78) Japanese whaling trawler.” No comment! become reality. You can look forward to the upcoming issues, X-RAY MAG is distributed six Views and information X-RAY MAG accepts no responsi- The “Marineland” has a large saltwater- It is my belief that if these orcas were given because we are proud to present times per year on the Internet. expressed in articles are those bility for unsolicited materials sent aquarium with a huge oval tribune. a choice, they would have moved to some new first-class-photogra- © 2004-2006 X-RAY MAG. 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