Word: calif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yucca Valley, Calif...
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Before they plunged into the calm waters of Pigeon Point, just north of Santa Cruz, Calif., Chris Rehm, 33, and Omar Conger, 28, joked about sharks. The two men were experienced divers, and they had swum in that part of the Pacific before. Paddling out about 150 yds., they began diving for abalone, which they gathered in large bobbing buckets...
...been so many shark assaults off the U.S. in such quick succession. Between 1950 and 1955, sharks attacked a total of three people in the U.S. Pacific; in the past four years that number has quadrupled. The center of the danger area runs from Monterey Bay to Point Reyes, Calif. This 90mile stretch of coastline together with the Farallon Islands to the west forms a perilous wedge now called the Red Triangle. John McCosker, director of the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, says, "It may be the shark-attack capital of the world...
Robert Rabkin, a surgeon from Sausalito, Calif., considered himself a pretty savvy consumer-until he decided to buy a personal computer. Nothing he had learned while buying cars or stereo rigs prepared him for the trauma of shopping for a microcomputer. Not only was the equipment expensive ($2,500 and up for a complete system) and dauntingly complex, but the manufacturers seemed to be in a state of constant turmoil. "I didn't know what I was getting into," says Rabkin. "I was afraid anything I might buy would be obsolete within six months." For now, the doctor...