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NBA's Yao Ming swears off shark's fin soup

By Associated Press — Aug. 2, 2006

Wednesday, August 2, 2006

• Audacious news: Electrocuted grizzly, sturgeon smack-down and Batman busted! BEIJING — NBA star Yao Ming recently pledged to give up eating shark's fin soup, a Chinese delicacy, as part of a campaign to promote wildlife protection in his homeland. "Endangered species are our friends," Yao said at a news conference organized by the San Francisco-based conservation group WildAid. The group said China is the world's biggest importer of shark's fins, which conservationists say ...

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