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...varied reasons for home sharing often depend on age. In a study of 105 home providers conducted at the University of Kansas Life Span Institute, researchers R. Mark Mathews and Deborah Altus found that people 55 to 70 tended to value home sharing for its financial savings while the 70-and-older group prized the service and security. The older people wanted someone else in the home so that they would feel safer as well as get some help with chores. "One woman in her mid-70s, who'd applied for a housemate after her husband died, ended up having...
...least it's something. At least it makes a dent. Exactly how big a dent is hard to know. The statistics on child abductions are unreliable, unable to settle the matter of whether such crimes are growing more common, or even how widespread they are. The figures depend on the vagaries of local police reports that classify disappearances differently - sometimes as murders, sometimes as other things such as rape, depending on the circumstances of the crime. The fear and confusion unleashed by the abduction stories can't be expressed as math. Its power is primal, as gripping as an empty...
...absence of men sleeping with the beetles, the CIA had to depend on less reliable allies. The agency attempted to recruit tribal leaders in Afghanistan who might be persuaded to take on bin Laden; contingency plans had been made for the CIA to fly one of its planes to a desert landing strip in Afghanistan if he was ever captured. (Clinton had signed presidential "findings" that were ambiguous on the question of whether bin Laden could be killed in such an attack.) But the tribal groups' loyalty was always in doubt. Despite the occasional abortive raid, they never seemed...
With its shallow waters and shifting sands, Cape Cod has long been a graveyard for both man and whale, especially pilot whales. In this treacherous terrain, the whales' critical echolocation system--those telltale clicks whales depend on for everything from avoiding predators to finding a mate--can easily become confused. Yet even after years of studying these big-brained creatures, scientists admit that's only an informed guess and doesn't explain groundings elsewhere. "I could give you an unlimited number of scenarios," says veteran Smithsonian cetologist James Mead, "and because we know so little about whale biology...
...fatal illnesses, perhaps contracted from eating poisoned fish. Or startled reactions to the cacophony of a ship's engine. Or the sudden appearance of a predator. Some scientists have even linked whale groundings to magnetic anomalies that can play havoc with the internal compasses on which whales seem to depend for navigation. One scenario, however, has been pretty much dismissed in this case: disruption by underwater sonic booms from the powerful new U.S. Navy submarine-hunting sonar that recently inflicted fatal hearing damage on beaked whales in the Bahamas--and prompted an outcry from environmentalists when the Bush Administration allowed...