| The Main Street Hyannis location closed June 21
Shipping lanes into Boston moved to protect whales Moved four miles north of normal route Two whales have been hit in the last six weeks. Only about 400 North Atlantic right whales swim in the Atlantic ocean now, compared with roughly 10,000 in the 17th centuryFrom this weekend, ships entering Boston harbour have to shift their course to avoid whales. Starting Sunday, large vessels will travel roughly 6.5km north of the existing path in new lanes to avoid parts of a whale feeding sanctuary. It is the first change of US shipping lanes to protect an endangered species. The Coast Guard says electronic maps have been recalculated, navigational charts reprinted and mariners warned. Coast Guard cutters are patrolling the area to mark the new lanes with buoys in time for Sunday's shift, which adds 10 to 20 minutes of sailing. Boston, a busy port since the early 17th century, receives at least three cargo ships carrying containers, oil or liquid natural gas each day.
Government cuts budget on backs of poor
Calling Korea "a failure" is inaccurate. Our armed forces were sent over there to defend South Korea from being over run by North Korea, not to reunite the two. Also, saying that the "liberals stopped us from winning" is absurd. With the horrors of World War II still fresh in our memory, fighting a prolonged and bloody war against the massive Chinese army in order to win would have been morally reprehensible and politically impossible.Finally, his claim that liberal ideology has caused "pain," "suffering," "death to innocents," and "costs lots of money" is illogical.Liberals freed the slaves, ended apartheid, passed civil rights laws, ended child labor, gave women the right to vote, ended abusive working conditions, made our food safer, our air cleaner and our lives better. Conservatives tried to stop all of those things.
1968: 40 years later
As the news spreads, uprisings begin in 125 cities.
6 Eldridge Cleaver is arrested following a police ambush of Black Panthers in Oakland, Calif. He will later escape to Algeria, eventually to be joined by LSD guru Timothy Leary thanks to his own prison break, engineered by the radical Weather Underground.
8 The U.S. Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, precursor to todays DEA, is established.
23 Student demonstrations lead to the occupation of five campus buildings at Columbia University, in protest of plans for building a gymnasium on land used by the neighboring Harlem community. When police end the sit-in with force eight days later, 700 people are arrested and more than 150 people injured.
27 Vice President Hubert Humphrey announced his candidacy for the job being vacated by LBJ.
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