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...long as 20 miles that are equipped with more than 500 baited hooks. Toss a line overboard, and up should come your desired prey--plus a lot of other hungry fish that you didn't mean to snag. "Longlines are designed to collect large marine predators," says biologist Julia Baum, lead author of the Science paper. "But sharks often swim in the same area as tuna and swordfish, and that means they can get caught...
...large predators in check, regulating who gets to eat whom and who gets to survive and thrive. Want to preview an ocean after the sharks have gone? Picture Yugoslavia after the Soviets: a bloodbath. "We know from studying lakes that top predators have disproportionate effects on their ecosystems," says Baum...
...sold briskly when it debuted in 1996, but sales have plummeted more than 50% in the past three years. "The Z3 got old and tired," says Alan Baum, an auto-industry analyst with the Planning Edge in Farmington Hills, Mich. The car developed a reputation for being tough to drive and was not enticing enough to men, who are the main buyers of sports cars. "The Z4 is a more athletic and substantive car," says Hennie Chung, BMW's product manager for the vehicle. Yet its reception illustrates critics' fussiness when evaluating roadsters. "The car's proportions are perplexing," wrote...
...more awards from the magazine. In the ’80s, Schiavo, then inspector general for the Department of Transportation, won Glamour’s “Working Woman” contest. Then, after writing a book, teaching aeronautical engineering and working for the California law firm Baum & Hedland, she took home one of Glamour’s “Woman of the Year” awards in 1997, a title recently shared by big names like Salma Hayek and Eve Ensler...