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After he graduated, Pendergast's life took a different turn. Determined to become an entertainer, he formed a band. Nightlife brought him into contact with gamblers, and before long he was nearly $20,000 in debt...
...help pay his bookies, Pendergast orchestrated the Northwestern point-shaving scheme. In February 1995 he made contact with Kenneth Dion Lee, 21, a starting guard on the Northwestern men's basketball squad. A three-point specialist who was one of the team's leading scorers, Lee had his own gambling problems. At one point Northwestern had suspended him for it. He had run up big debts...
Your sensationalized account of the shark attacks off the Florida coast only perpetuates the general public's irrational fear of sharks [AMERICAN SCENE, Sept. 4]. I have scuba dived and snorkeled in close contact with several species of sharks, including many hundreds of schooling hammerheads and silvertip reef sharks, and have seen only fear, wariness, curiosity or indifference on the part of the sharks. They are beautiful, awesome creatures that are being decimated by shark finners and purse-seine factory ships. DAVID MCCULLOH Cupertino, Calif...
...years 1997 and 1998, dogs bit some 9 million Americans--27 of them fatally. The breeds to blame in more than half the fatalities: pit bulls and Rottweilers. So what should you do if approached by an angry-looking canine? Stand still, don't scream, avoid eye contact--and don't smile. A dog interprets smiling as teeth baring, a signal that you're about to launch an attack of your...