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...organs, scientists had a suspicion about what might be causing the deformities. The industrial chemicals known as PCBs, which have polluted land and water all over the world, tend to become concentrated in animals' fatty tissues. Seals, which are the bears' main source of food, are essentially blobs of blubber with flippers attached. And because PCBs are thought to mimic estrogen, some experts fear that even low-level exposure could wreak havoc with a bear's reproductive system...
...same period, tiger sharks have attacked 83 times with 29 fatalities, and bull sharks have attacked 69 times with 17 fatalities. Great white attacks on humans generally involve just one bite. Researchers are not sure, but most think the shark's sensory organs quickly differentiate between humans and the blubber-rich seals it prefers, so it effectively bites and spits out humans...
...Winners SCOTT EVERTZ Bush pick for AIDS czar becomes first openly gay Republican presidential appointee. Strange, John Ashcroft always seemed like such a cheerful guy FAT The best thing to happen to liposuction since Suzanne Somers. Human blubber found to contain stem cells useful in gene therapy THE BEATLES Their B&W debut film A Hard Day's Night is back in cinemas after 37 years. Could a Can't Stop the Music revival be very far behind...
...SWITCH In the country's ongoing battle with blubber, researchers have discovered that a protein called Wnt-10b controls fat formation. Wnt-10b inhibited fat precursor cells in mice from becoming full-fledged fat, while, remarkably, cutting off Wnt-10b turned even premuscle cells into flab. Humans also produce Wnt-10b, so further study into what regulates the protein may someday lead to the development of long-awaited antiobesity drugs...
...Shackleton's ship, Endurance, got locked in the ice of the Weddell Sea and eventually broke apart and sank. Shackleton led his 28 men on an 18-month frozen odyssey, camping on disintegrating ice floes, living on blubber and cold penguin legs while killer whales eyed the expedition from below, speculating that men might taste as good as seals...