More than four years of NOAA research showed that speed kills whales.

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This kind of speed kills.

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They must slow down to about 19mph, a speed that, in case of collision, kills less than 5%.

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First, in the face of a disease such as malaria, which kills up to 2.7m people a year, speed is itself a virtue, for which some sacrifice in quality may be worthwhile.

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