Word: attractants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...team in Hawaii routinely tricks baby hammerheads at Coconut Island into striking at electrodes dangling in the water. Adult sharks, apparently drawn by the same process, have been known to bite through undersea cables. Holland is planning to investigate what sorts of electric signal might repel rather than attract sharks--protecting not just hardware but people as well...
...problem is that most such short phrases lack substance and foundation. And the difficulty with 5-, 10- or 20-minute speeches is that most of them consist of a series of sound bites, equally lacking in substance and foundation. The sound bite has the potential to attract attention and elicit support. However, it is inadequate to the task of intellectual persuasion, the missing ingredient of modern public discourse. FRANK S. KOPPELMAN Evanston...
...Another attraction is the competition itself. Purists such as ucla's legendary coach John Wooden think women's basketball is more watchable than men's basketball. It's certainly more structured and team-oriented than the helter-skelter N.B.A. game, and that aesthetic has helped the W.N.B.A. attract older fans who miss the traditional pace of basketball. At first look, W.N.B.A. play was somewhat sloppy, but in the past few weeks it has tightened up. Last week in Charlotte, the 7,266 fans were treated to a thrilling game won by the Liberty, 65-63, on two free throws...
...exposed" that the tabloids have trademarked. If readers don't get infamy uncovered for their buck, they'll stop buying the paper. As a result, even the best papers have responded as any good capitalist ventures would--they have started lowering the quality of their reporting in order to attract readers...
MOSCOW: The Russian space agency's plans to repair the crippled space station Mir have been postponed because of commander Vasily Tsibliyev's heart condition. As a replacement, Russian officials may ask NASA to allow American astronaut Michael Foale to take part in the repairs, a move sure to attract fire from Congress, which has become increasingly critical of the joint U.S.-Russian program over the past several weeks. TIME's Andrew Meier reports that the Russian decision to cancel the spacewalk was made to give Tsibliyev a much needed day off after a series of harrowing incidents...