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  • Currently, white-tip cigarettes make up 80% of that category, while Newports have a more traditional brown tip.

    Lorillard Not Straying Far From Cigarettes Melissa Korn 2011

  • As a volunteer on this expedition, you'll dive among huge schools of scalloped hammerhead and white-tip reef sharks, sea turtles and thousands of tropical fish, assisting conservation scientists as they study how to protect endangered and threatened marine species.

    Wallace J Nichols: Three Places To Help The Ocean Wallace J Nichols 2011

  • Now, go read Kootcoot, who tears the VSun's endorsement to shreds faster than a white-tip shark with mackerel in its gape.

    If it looks like CanWest bought their way in the door... Dave 2009

  • That afternoon, the group boarded a boat to visit a sea-lion colony and search for white-tip sharks.

    Congress's Travel Tab Swells 2009

  • Now, go read Kootcoot, who tears the VSun's endorsement to shreds faster than a white-tip shark with mackerel in its gape.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Alison 2009

  • Sightings of black-tip shark Carcharinus melanopterus, white-tip shark Triaenovon abesus, manta rays Mobula dibolus and eagle rays are common.

    Tubbataha Reef Marine Park, Philippines 2008

  • Two small blues and one pelagic white-tip, a seven-footer that had turned and run for

    With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • Two small blues and one pelagic white-tip, a seven-footer that had turned and run for

    With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • Two small blues and one pelagic white-tip, a seven-footer that had turned and run for

    With Friends Like These Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • At the latest CITES meeting in March 2010 in Qatar, the U.S. sought to list hammerhead and oceanic white-tip sharks under Appendix II, which would require export permits and the assurance of government that the trade is not detrimental to the species.

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

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