Word: dwarf
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...first appeared on earth 400 million years ago, and after about 200 million years of evolutionary trial and error, nature pretty much ran out of ways to improve on its handiwork. Today more than 350 species swim the planet, ranging in size from the less-than-1-ft.-long dwarf shark and pygmy ribbontail catfish shark to the 50-ft. whale shark. Sharks have insinuated themselves into every marine environment from the Arctic to the tropics. One species, the bull shark, even ventures into rivers and lakes as far as 2,000 miles from the nearest salt water...
...America, AgReserves, Inc., in Salt Lake City, is Mormon-owned. So are the Bonneville International Corp., the country's 14th largest radio chain, and the Beneficial Life Insurance Co., with assets of $1.6 billion. There are richer churches than the one based in Salt Lake City: Roman Catholic holdings dwarf Mormon wealth. But the Catholic Church has 45 times as many members. There is no major church in the U.S. as active as the Latter-day Saints in economic life, nor, per capita, as successful...
...feeling uneasy about crime belabored government and the police about soaring murder rates. As is now well-known, the authorities and some favorable social trends have done their work, and the violent-crime rates have fallen dramatically. Yet the unease remains--correctly, some scholars think. American crime rates still dwarf those of other industrial democracies. Moreover, in 1995, the percentage of murders committed by strangers was at a startling rate of 55%. Jack Levin, director of the Program for the Study for Violence at Northeastern University, notes that fear responds to crime quality as well as quantity...
Perhaps the real cover-up concerns the Air Force's waste of taxpayer money in releasing spy balloons in the U.S. instead of in Europe or Asia and dropping dwarf dummies just to make sure that gravity still exists. When the extraterrestrials officially land, we should sue for damages arising from the mindless hysteria they have caused. BRUCE C. JEWETT Belmont, Calif...
...University-managed, non-profit corporation that manages Harvard's endowment. The salaries of its best fund managers, which dwarf those of senior administrators and faculty, have drawn criticism from campus activists who bemoan such a wide income disparity at a non-profit institution...