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The shark-feeding tours that you mentioned should be banned. Sharks are hardly demons of the sea, but it is dangerous for them to associate humans with the provision of food. Sharks now consider the sound of a boat engine a signal for getting food, and this is too risky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 20, 2001 | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

I realize that going professional will require a lot of sacrifices, like learning what an engine is and growing a mustache. But I'm willing, because there truly is no greater thrill in sports than crushing a car. Except maybe crushing a school bus.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digging My Own Grave | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

I put on a fire suit, a helmet, driving gloves and a huge foam neck brace, and strapped on a five-point harness. Then I headed for the two Caprices from behind, not noticing the dirt ramp that had been set up by the sides of the cars. At the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digging My Own Grave | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

I put the truck in reverse and tried again. For some reason, perhaps the noise and fumes, I forgot that I had done all that damage with the engine turned off and decided I had been going too slow. Also, as I was approaching the ramp, I misinterpreted Dennis' signal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digging My Own Grave | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

The technology works, but now the race is on to develop products and bring down costs to levels competitive with all things fossil fuel. "We're trying to do in a 10-year period what it took the internal-combustion engine 100 years to do," says Byron McCormick, director of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earth Inc.: How Soon Fuel Cells? | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

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