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Regardless of what SeaWorld decides as Tilikum’s long-term future, a conversation has started within the whale research and advocacy communities about what ought to be done with an orca linked to three human deaths.

Killer whale experts know the giant mammals to be highly intelligent and incredibly social beings. All of the authorities contacted by the Orlando Sentinel said they would rather see killer whales in their natural habitat — the earth’s oceans — than in tanks at an Orlando theme park.

One suggested that building a tank the size of Rhode Island wouldn’t be large enough for a six-ton male such as Tilikum, an animal capable of swimming 100 miles in a day

Re-introducing Tilikum to the wild would be costly, would include serious risks for the animal and would not guarantee his survival, they say.

Nonetheless, in the aftermath of veteran SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau’s death this week, authorities such as Naomi Rose argue there is a moral obligation to release Tilikum.

“There is absolutely a risk in keeping him where he is,” said Naomi Rose, a marine-mammal scientist for the Humane Society of the United States. She predicted Tilikum will kill again if he remains in captivity.

“I will take bets on that and win,” Rose said. “Boredom, depression — these cause physical problems in human beings, chimpanzees and, believe me, killer whales.”

SeaWorld officials said Friday they intend to continue using Tilikum in performances. SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment President Jim Atchison said removing him from shows “would be a shame.” The orca’s participation in shows is “very important to his overall health and husbandry.”

That’s not the news many in the killer whale community wanted to hear. At the same time, such experts acknowledge that putting Tilikum in the wild is something that never has been done successfully long-term with a whale who has been held in such captivity.

Keiko, of “Free Willy” movie fame, was held in captivity for many years before taking off on his own from the Iceland coast. But Keiko never bonded with other orca “pods” his handlers thought might adopt the whale.

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Clinton, named by the United Nations to coordinate relief efforts for survivors of the devastating January 12 quake, made the appeal during a visit to the shattered Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, his second since last month’s disaster.

The accused U.S. missionaries, most of whom belong to an Idaho-based Baptist church, were arrested a week ago and charged on Thursday with child kidnapping and criminal association.

Haitian authorities say the group tried to take a busload of 33 Haitian children across the border into the Dominican Republic without any papers proving the minors were orphans or any official permission to take them out of the country.

The missionaries deny any intentional wrongdoing and say they were only trying to help children left destitute by the January 12 earthquake, which killed more than 200,000 people, injured some 300,000 and left over a million more homeless.

The Americans’ case is diplomatically sensitive and aid groups complain it has distracted media and world attention away from the struggle to feed and shelter hundreds of thousands of Haitians camped out in wrecked streets.

“What’s important now is for the government of Haiti and the government of the United States to get together and work through this,” Clinton told CNN in Port-au-Prince.

He said he understood the Haitian government’s efforts to try to protect its children from possible child traffickers and unlawful adoptions following the catastrophic quake.

But he also said the missionaries could be telling the truth when they argued they simply wanted to help the children and did not mean to violate any laws. Evidence has emerged that many of the intercepted children were not orphans but were given up by parents who wanted them to have a better life.

“The government of Haiti … (is) not looking for some big fight here. They just want to protect their children and they also want to make sure they have a good inventory so they don’t send children away that maybe have an aunt or an uncle that have an income,” Clinton said.

“I think they’ll find a way to defuse the crisis and work through this,” he added, but he said the case was not his direct responsibility.

The missionaries, five men and five women, were questioned individually on Friday by investigating judge Bernard Sainvil at the offices of the prosecutor in the city.

Officials said the judge would continue his investigation next Monday and Tuesday, before making a decision on whether to release the 10 or proceed with the case against them.

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The missionaries’ lawyer, Edwin Coq, said he had requested the 10 be released provisionally pending the further hearings, but no decision was immediately taken on that.

Coq said the Americans, who had been held at police headquarters up to now, were taken after the questioning on Friday to established prisons — the women to a women’s prison in the Petionville suburb and the men to the quake-damaged central prison in the capital.

The U.S. government, which is spearheading the big relief operation in Haiti, has said it is providing the Americans with consular access and monitoring their case, but it has made clear it does not want to interfere.

“Obviously this is a matter for the Haitian judicial system,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is Bill Clinton’s wife, told reporters in Washington.

Haitian President Rene Preval’s crippled administration, which has been accused by many of its citizens of failing to do enough to help quake survivors, has defended its decision to detain and charge the Americans.

“It is true the country has been brought to its knees by the earthquake, but we still have laws. … In any case, whoever violates the law has to be sanctioned, whether the violator is a U.S. or European citizen, or someone else,” Justice Minister Paul Denis told Reuters.

The detained Americans were still hoping on Friday they would eventually be released. “We pray to God for the outcome,” said the group’s leader, Laura Silsby.

Another member of the group, which called itself the New Life Children’s Refuge and planned to build an orphanage in the Dominican Republic for the Haitian children, said it was “unfortunate” that world attention was focusing on their case and not the plight of Haiti’s earthquake victims.

“I think the most important thing is to continue to put the focus on the people, the kids who are suffering, because they need help. That’s the reason why we were here in the first place, to help,” Silas Daniel Thompson, 19, told Reuters while he was being taken to see the investigating judge.

Haiti’s government has tightened adoption procedures since the quake, saying it feared unscrupulous traffickers could try to take advantage of the disaster by spiriting away vulnerable children. Officials said they already had reports of trafficking of minors, and even of human organs.

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The rationale for doubling the slate of Oscar best picture nominees to 10 went something like this:

In recent years the Academy Awards race has become too elitist, a competition of high-falutin’ but little-seen titles that most moviegoers have barely heard of.

Expanding the roster to 10 nominees would allow a broader range of films to be considered, including some popular with general audiences. That in turn will entice more of us to tune in for the big Oscar broadcast on March 7.

Did it work?

Actually, I think it did.

The list of best picture nominees announced Tuesday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences features three box-office juggernauts:

The record-smashing “Avatar,” James Cameron’s sci-fi epic that between dazzling effects dabbles in environmentalism, colonialism and ruthless capitalism. It’s now the all-time box office champ, having surpassed Cameron’s “Titanic.” Of course, it was a given that even with only five nominees, “Avatar” would be in the running. It couldn’t be ignored.

The inspiring drama “The Blind Side,” about race, charity and football. Middle America has embraced this real-life story about a wealthy white family that adopted a troubled young black man and inspired him to greatness.

The computer-animated “Up,” the Pixar hit that mixes cartoon fun with issues of parenthood and loneliness and which – in an astonishing five-minute segment – gave us one of the cinema’s most memorable portraits of a marriage. The only other animated film nominated for the top prize: “Beauty and the Beast,” almost 20 years ago.

A fourth nominated film, the South African science-fiction effort “District 9,” which used the mistreatment of stranded space aliens as a metaphor for apartheid, was a popular hit as well, though not in the league of the above three.

The new 10-nominee system also opened up the competition for more rarified titles. We always figured that the fiercely topical romantic dramedy “Up in the Air” and Quentin Tarantino’s World War II revenge fantasy “Inglourious Basterds” were likely nominees.

But it’s highly satisfying to see “A Serious Man,” “Precious,” “An Education” and “The Hurt Locker” in the running. All are accomplished efforts on serious – nay, even depressing – subjects that struggled to find audiences. Promoting this kind of work is what the Oscars should be doing.

I’ve got my own grudges – where is “A Single Man” or, a personal favorite, the apocalyptic “The Road”?

But by and large, it’s time for rejoicing. The system worked.

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Obama acknowledges running into a ”bit of a buzz saw” of opposition. A top Democrat suggests Congress slow down on health care, a sign of eroding political will in the wake of Republican upset in the Massachusetts Senate race Tuesday.

Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., who got health legislation through the Senate’s health committee last year after the death of his friend, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, said Obama and lawmakers could ”maybe take a breather for a month, six weeks.”

Just a week ago, the legislation had appeared near passage after Obama threw himself into marathon negotiations with congressional leaders.

”There are things that have to get done. This is our best chance to do it. We can’t keep on putting this off,” Obama said Friday at a town hall meeting in Elyria, Ohio.

”I am not going to walk away just because it’s hard,” the president said.

Obama seemed to pull back from a suggestion he made Wednesday that lawmakers unite behind the elements of the legislation everyone can agree on. Obama said that approach presented problems because some of the popular ideas, such as new requirements on insurance companies, couldn’t be done without getting many more people insured.

”A lot of these insurance reforms are connected to some other things we have to do to make sure that everybody has some access to coverage,” he said. For example, insurers wouldn’t be able to end the practice of denying coverage to people with health conditions unless more people were covered. Otherwise people could wait until they got sick to buy insurance and premiums could skyrocket.

Obama has used immense political capital to advance the health care overhaul and remake a system that has frustrated past administrations, most recently Democrat Bill Clinton’s in 1994. Whether he can succeed where others have failed is now unclear.

”Here’s the good news. We’ve gotten pretty far down the road, but I have to admit, we had a little bit of a buzz saw this week,” the president said.

”I understand that, why after the Massachusetts election people in Washington were all in a tizzy, trying to figure out what this means for health reform, Republicans and Democrats: What does it mean for Obama? Is he weakened? Is he, oh, how’s he going to survive this?” Obama said. ”But I want you to understand, this is not about me. This is about you.”

Despite Dodd’s comments, both House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., insist the health care legislation will go forward. They just haven’t said how.

One potential approach could allow the Senate to act with a simple majority instead of the 60-vote total Democrats now lack with the election of Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts.

House Republican leader John Boehner said Brown’s victory has sent a loud warning to Democrats.

”For the better part of those nine months, Democrats in Washington have been focused on this government takeover of health care that working families just can’t afford and want nothing to do with,” Boehner, R-Ohio, said in his party’s radio and Internet address Saturday.

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ISLAMABAD–U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is overseeing wars with Sunni militants in Iraq and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. In Pakistan, he’s facing a different foe: the pervasive conspiracy theories that fuel widespread anti-American feelings here.

On a visit here, Mr. Gates faced questions about purported U.S. plots to seize Pakistan’s nuclear weapons and build permanent American military bases in virtually all of his public and private meetings in the Pakistani capital, complicating his stated hope of forging closer ties between Washington and Islamabad.

The Obama administration is trying to persuade Pakistan to abandon its long-standing preoccupation with India and instead devote new military resources to the fight against the country’s extremists. But the widespread belief that the Obama administration is secretly conspiring against Pakistan has made that argument a much harder sell.

Mr. Gates took direct aim at the rumors in a speech Friday at Pakistan’s National Defence University. Looking out over a crowd of senior Pakistani military officers, the defense chief said Islamic extremists were trying to foment public hostility towards the U.S. through an “organized propaganda campaign” of deliberate falsehoods.

“Let me say, definitively, the U.S. does not covet a single inch of Pakistani soil,” Mr. Gates said. “We seek no military bases and we have no desire to control Pakistan’s nuclear weapons.”

Mr. Gates acknowledged in his remarks that there was a “very real…trust deficit” separating the U.S. and Pakistan.

“That has made it more difficult for us to work together to confront the common threat of extremism,” he said.

Mr. Gates used his two-day trip here repeatedly to praise Pakistan for its ongoing offensive into the militant haven of South Waziristan and encourage the country’s leadership to mount similar assaults against other insurgent strongholds.

In an attempt to boost Pakistan’s military capabilities, Mr. Gates said Friday that the U.S. had decided to give Pakistan 12 unmanned aerial drones. The Shadow drones, which could be transferred to Pakistan within months, carry cameras and other surveillance equipment but are not capable of firing missiles at targets.

Pakistan has long argued that it needed such drones to track insurgent targets in remote parts of the country’s tribal areas, and senior U.S. officials signaled months ago that they were amenable to the request. Still, Mr. Gates’s comments Friday marked the first formal confirmation that American drones would be turned over to the Pakistanis.

Mr. Gates also told reporters here that the Taliban were part of Afghanistan’s “political fabric,” an indication of the administration’s willingness to accept the Islamist group playing a potentially central role in Afghanistan’s future.

In a roundtable with Pakistani and American journalists, the defense chief said that the U.S. supported the Afghan government’s new outreach effort to the Taliban and held the door open for the Taliban to join Afghanistan’s political process if the organization accepted Kabul’s legitimacy and took other moderating steps.

“The question is whether they are prepared to play a legitimate role in the political fabric of Afghanistan going forward, meaning participating in elections, meaning not assassinating local families,” he said.

During most of his unannounced visit to Pakistan, however, it was Mr. Gates who faced the sharpest questions about his plans for the future.

In an interview Thursday night with Pakistan’s Express 24/7 television station, journalist Quatrina Hosain said that conspiracy theories about alleged U.S. plots to seize Pakistan’s nuclear weapons had taken “on the hue or the coloring of being real” because the American government hadn’t formally refuted them.

Mr. Gates told her that the U.S. had no plans to seek control of the weapons and was comfortable with Pakistan’s security measures for its nuclear bombs. Any rumors to the contrary, he said, were “all nonsense.”

U.S. defense officials acknowledged that Mr. Gates had to deliver similar reassurances during his meetings with Pakistan’s top military and civilian leadership, a sign of just how extensively the conspiracy theories have taken root here.

Mr. Gates himself may have inadvertently helped fuel a new rumor. In his Thursday television interview, Ms. Hosain asked the defense chief if rules had been put in place to govern the behavior of any U.S. contractors working inside Pakistan, specifically citing DynCorp and Blackwater (now known as Xe Services.) Mr. Gates told her that “very stringent rules” had been put into place.

Defense officials tried to clarify the comment Thursday night, telling reporters that Mr. Gates had been speaking about contractor oversight more generally and that the Pentagon didn’t employ Xe in Pakistan.

It was too late, however. By Friday morning, an array of Pakistani newspapers, television stations and radio programs reported that “Blackwater” had begun operating in Pakistan as well, citing Mr. Gates’s comments.

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