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...hardly the picture of primal terror: a 4- ft. 4-in., 62-lb. baby great white shark, circling the 1 million-gal. Outer Bay tank at California's Monterey Bay Aquarium. Her arrival in Monterey on Sept. 14 was a milestone. Though the world's aquariums are stocked with many of the other 386 species of shark, no one has successfully exhibited a great white for longer than 16 days. At least 37 have died in aquarium tanks during the past three decades. The most obvious problem has been that, once captured, the sharks refused to eat. They became disoriented...
Noting that the sharks were often in bad shape before they even arrived at the aquariums, owing to the trauma of their capture, Monterey Bay Aquarium's scientists tried to make the transfer of their new arrival--accidentally snagged by a gill-net fisherman off the Southern California coast--as stress-free as possible. She was transported to a 4 million-gal. ocean pen, where she remained for 25 days, monitored by a team of marine biologists and released only after she began eating and appeared to have fully recovered. The strategy seems to have worked: on her first...
...TAICHUNG In Taiwan's third-largest city, the Chung Yo department store boasts 13 themed toilets, incorporating everything from pop-art and Baroque motifs to toilets designed to resemble a jungle or aquarium. Each toilet cost a cool $30,000 to install...
...When you imagine most college pranks, they’re actually very violent,” said Maats, citing the example of students at another school who filled a dean’s car with water, turning it into a portable aquarium. “But on some level we would have loved to do these kind of pranks...
...Japanese director Hideo Nakata--The Ring (1998), Ring 2 (1999), Chaos (1999) and Dark Water (2002)--take a subtler route to spooking audiences. In his thrillers, Nakata concentrates less on the explosion of the time bomb than on the ticking inside it: abstract images on a videotape, an aquarium tank full of dead fish, a water stain spreading on a ceiling. His heroine-victims, often preadolescent girls, are guilty only of the original sin of being human; they may finally neither destroy nor exorcise the demons haunting them. Nakata knows dread...