Word: gearing
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...decades been getting his own incredible insights into shark behavior, frequently by taking risks others would call insane. While a graduate student in the 1970s, Klimley became the first scientist ever to swim directly into schools of adult hammerhead sharks. He dived as deep as 70 ft. without scuba gear so his air bubbles wouldn't disturb the skittish fish...
...faced at fishermen's hands was so-called commercial extinction. Whenever local populations of a particular fish plummeted, boats simply targeted some other species or moved to more distant waters. The depleted stocks almost always recovered. But now, experts warn, unprecedented forces--among them, industrial-scale fishing gear and a burgeoning global seafood market--are altering this age-old cycle. The economic and technological barriers that have kept overfishing within bounds appear increasingly shaky, like dikes along a river that floodwaters have undermined. Should these barriers collapse, commercial extinction could escalate into biological catastrophe...
...that a few wacko cyclists were the only irrational people in this mess. The wizards at city hall inflamed the situation by sending out battalions of police in riot gear. They arrested more than 100 cyclists, including some peaceable ones who were just trying to point out that the city needs more bike lanes; their bikes were confiscated. The normally unflappable Mayor Willie Brown, a world-class deal broker, seemed ready to snap. Critical Mass, a leaderless mob that refers to itself as an idea rather than an organization (and has manifestations in a dozen other cities...
...holster and a partly filled box of Golden Saber .40-cal. bullets. At Trail's apartment police found a message from Cunanan on the answering machine, asking Trail to come to Madson's place. Police who later searched Cunanan's San Diego apartment found a trove of S&M gear: clamps, harnesses and videos featuring sex with animals...
...embrace whatever new weapon came along--Shelton, as commander of the famed 82nd Airborne in 1993, raised eyebrows by scrapping the division's fleet of high-powered AH-64 Apache helicopter gunships in favor of more reliable but modest OH-58 Kiowas. Shelton's career went into high gear in Haiti in 1994, when he cut short the U.S. invasion, turned back the bombers and transformed himself from warrior to a diplomat, ousting Raoul Cedras and keeping U.S. casualties low. Shelton also enjoys jangling bureaucrats. In 1996, when his Bosnia-bound troops needed new cold-weather gear, he bypassed...