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Powerful typhoon kills 11,000 farmed tuna in Japan: reports

Tokyo, Japan (AFP) — July 24, 2015 — A powerful typhoon which lashed Japan last week has killed more than 11,000 farmed bluefin tuna, costing over $10 million in damage, local media said Saturday.

Typhoon Nangka made landfall in southwestern Japan on the night of July 16 and slowly moved northward before turning into a tropical depression.

Torrential rain and gusts of wind wreaked havoc in various parts of western Japan, also causing high waves and clouding sea water in the fish farm near the Pacific coastal town of Kushimoto, Kyodo News and the Asahi newspaper reported.

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Hillary Clinton says working at a fish-processing plant was the ‘best preparation for being in Washington’

July 21, 2015 — While researching the youthful summer jobs of people who went on to become super successful, we stumbled upon this gem about a law school-era Hillary Clinton, from a 1992 article in The New York Times.

The summer between finishing at Wellesley and starting at Yale, the former New York Senator and current presidential hopeful “went to Alaska and got a job in a fish-processing plant,” the Times reported.

“She was supposed to scoop out the entrails, but she began to get worried about the state of the fish.”

Fish processing — and specifically sliming salmon — is not a glamorous business under the best circumstances.

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