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...would remember that in America money talks and if only we would listen to a person with a pile of it, we might save trillions of dollars and avoid much agony. Now we know how to create change: get a renegade billionaire to back your cause! DAN FURST Honolulu...
...Teamsters Union," says Paula Lambert, founder of the Mozzarella Co. in Dallas, Texas, who has had to scramble for ways to ship her perishable specialty cheeses to restaurants and gourmet shops around the country. Declares Darlene Garalde, owner of Bridals by Heaven Scent in Honolulu: "It's not going to be heaven-sent if we don't get our gowns soon. It's going to be a wedding from hell...
...should never have looked at its teeth. For the past 15 minutes, this 6-ft. tiger shark has been hog-tied alongside our small flat-bottomed motorboat, tossing in choppy seas two miles off Waikiki Beach, in Honolulu. Carl Meyer, a graduate student at the University of Hawaii, has been busy the whole time--slipping a noose around the powerful tail, flipping the shark on its back to put it into a stupor, measuring it this way and that, then shouting the numbers to his colleagues on the larger boat that bobs in the waves nearby...
...Back in Honolulu, on the other side of Oahu, the tiger-shark tagging is another high-tech effort to understand a different aspect of shark behavior. In 1992 two people were killed by tiger sharks in Hawaiian waters, the first such deaths there in three decades. An earlier spate of killings had provoked an all-out program to eradicate tiger sharks, but it was never clear whether that slaughter had been really effective...
Perhaps they could make their point more strongly if they could get CITES to meet in Honolulu next time and take the other delegates out to visit the tiger sharks on their home turf. Arguments about the impact on marine ecosystems and about the destruction of creatures whose biochemistry might one day save lives are, in the end, somewhat dry and academic...