TOKYO Breaded, deep-fried or raw, whale is considered a tasty staple in some parts of Japan, no matter what the world and its animal-lovers may think. Northerners prefer the lighter flesh of the minke, while the cooking traditions of Wada, a village outside Tokyo, focus on the dark meat of the Baird's beaked whale. Akiji Ichihara, who runs Wada's Piman restaurant, stews the meat with ginger, leaves, soy sauce, sake and miso soy bean paste, or pan-fries it in oil like a steak. On the...

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FRANKFURT, Germany - Bayer AG said Tuesday that its third-quarter profit nearly quadrupled with help from a massive tax gain, and the drug and chemical maker lifted its sales outlook for the year. But Bayer also said it planned to trim more jobs from its payrolls, part of a cost-savings plan at the MaterialSciences unit that produces polycarbonates and polyurethanes. The , which pulled an antibleeding drug off the market this week because of health concerns, also said it would cut 1,500...

On the flensing (blubber-cutting) floor, the men blessed it with rice wine -- then hacked through blubber and sinew with long-handled knives, slicing vermilion flesh from the massive spine. Coastal whalers argue that while they hunt whales as food and fertilizer, the Western whalers of old were only after them for their oil and discarded the rest. Even though the 1986 international moratorium on commercial whaling applies more to the high seas than to Japanese coastal outfits, it has...