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...something astonishing: albatrosses spend 95% of their lives over the ocean, and most of that flying. Albatrosses have the longest wingspan on earth, and they can stay aloft continuously for years, dozing on the wing. In Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival--ignore the sappy subtitle--Carl Safina follows a single bird as it roams the globe gathering food for its chick (be warned: this book contains extended scenes of fish regurgitation...
...Chairman Carl Levin of the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (which issued the study) also blasts directors for "failing to acknowledge" their share of the blame for Enron's collapse. A lawyer for the board called the report "very unfair," but it will be welcome news to shareholders seeking billions of dollars in compensation from Enron; they could get a legal boost from the 60-page document. The bipartisan study also raises the likelihood that one-time Enron board members will come under renewed pressure to resign directorships at other major corporations like Lockheed Martin and Qualcomm. Wendy Gramm...
...until it made headlines for an apparent success with a cancer treatment called Erbitux in 1999. Waksal, 54, was always as much salesman as scientist and employed his reputation and charm as a ladder into elite circles that included home-decor guru Stewart, Mick Jagger, actress Mariel Hemingway, financier Carl Icahn and Dr. John Mendelsohn, the cancer-drug pioneer and former Enron board member. Waksal's eclectic posse combined science and celebrity with stock-market speculation. It was an intoxicating lifestyle that the ImClone chief apparently savored...
...book published by the online magazine Salon, former White House counsel John Dean delivers a list of four men he believes could have been the anonymous source who divulged key facts about the Watergate break-in and cover-up to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Dean, whose incriminating Senate testimony led President Nixon to call him a traitor, has twice before proffered theories on the shadowy source--naming Watergate prosecutor Earl Silbert and Nixon White House chief of staff Alexander Haig, both of whom denied it. In his latest attempt, Dean has narrowed in on Jonathan Rose...
Consider split end and Ivy League Player of the Year Carl Morris (please see related story, E-1). Though the 6’3 junior established new benchmarks in nearly all Harvard’s receiving categories, including touchdown receptions in a season and a career, his biggest contribution to the undefeated season was a touchdown pass, not a catch...