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Scientists ultimately hope to de-mythologize sharks, to erase their images as rogue man-eaters like the great white shark that figures in Jaws, the Peter Benchley novel turned Steven Spielberg movie classic. Benchley, who says he is now "a full-time ocean conservationist," told TIME last week, "I couldn't write Jaws today." After 25 years of research, the demonization of sharks doesn't hold, he says. "It used to be believed that great white sharks did target humans; now we know that except in the rarest of instances, great white shark attacks are mistakes." Dr. Robert...
...classic three-house set was beautifully crafted by one of Harvard’s best set designers, Pippa Brashear ’01, along with director Wilson...
...Mississippi, to hear Eudora Welty read from her works was as prized as a pair of tickets to the state's Egg Bowl, the annual gridiron classic between the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University. That strong Southern accent delivered with her unique inflections drew her audience to a special place. The grande dame of American literature died Monday in a Jackson, Miss., hospital near the family home where she had lived for almost all of her 92 years. She was hospitalized with pneumonia on Saturday...
...make commercial concessions to get his music heard. Second, the average listener has an appetite for vastly different styles of music--from Britney's bubble gum to OutKast's rap and funk to Moby's edgy rock and techno--if only someone would serve them. "It's a classic commercial approach," says Moby. "You look at a cultural scenario and see a strange void. All of my friends' record collections are very eclectic. Then you look at all the festivals, and...they're not bad, they're just one-dimensional...
...uncomplimentary view of complementary medicine." That unfinished text - cut off, spookily, almost in midthought - is rounded out by an anthology of Diamond's newspaper columns, which show off his first-class deadline wit. (A story about being forced by his Hassidic computer repairman to say the Shema is a classic of the columnists' form.) Even Diamond's accounts of life with cancer can be darkly funny as well as harrowing. But as with all such collections, those stories, written to be read on the Tube or at the lunch counter, can't quite add up to a book...