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"ref": "1989, Tom Rose, Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World's Greatest Non-Event, page 82",
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"ref": "2002, Jim Nollman, The Beluga Café: My Strange Adventure With Art, Music, and Whales",
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"ref": "2004, Matt Ruff, Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy, page 222",
"text": "You remember: the Greenpeace dropout who played chicken with the Soviet Navy.",
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"ref": "2012, Stephen M. Ringler, Fled to Mexico: If No One Knows They Were There Then It Didn't Happen, page 191",
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