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Just when you thought it was safe to rent a DVD, what pops its snout up? Jaws, back again, in a spiffed-up digital package. But before and after the toothy one terrorized beach swimmers, sea monsters cued the aquaphobia of many a movie fan. Here's a scary half-dozen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 Best Sea Monster DVDs Ever | 6/19/2005 | See Source »

...have aquaphobia but like women's sports check out the Harvard stadium at 1:30 where Radcliffe faces New Hampshire in track and field...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: 100 Sweaty Years Later | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

Until his year, students who could not swim were graduated but not given a degree. Difficulties arose when businesses refused to hire these students. Non-swimmers plagued doctors and psychiatrists to be excused for chloride allergies on aquaphobia. One summa scholar supposedly spent the night before graduation trying to swim the IAB pool so that he might receive a Harvard diploma...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Freshman PT Requirement -- Why Bother? | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...felt I would have to break out of the cabin. I suppose doctors would call it aquaphobia. I'm a bundle of nerves. I guess I'm getting too old for these stunts." [He is 36.] Ill when he took off from Lympne, Eng land, Sir Charles suffered from lack of sleep. Typical excerpts from his log : 'Feel pretty sick. Had worst scare when forced to descend to 200 feet be cause I thought I was fainting. . . . Pos-sibly [tailwinds] are blowing higher up but am afraid to go up lest, feeling suddenly faint, I might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Sir Charles's Nerves | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

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