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Sharks are one of nature's ultimate designs, tested over 400 million years--confident, sleek and lethal (see graphic). Studies show some sharks can measure changes in electric currents as tiny as five-billionths of a volt. They use this ability to hunt for prey hidden under the sand and to navigate according to the earth's magnetic field. "They are like some high-tech AWACS thing, with all their sensors," says Sean Van Sommeran, executive director of the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation in Santa Cruz, Calif. When they do attack a human, the weight of evidence now suggests, they...
...time an ambulance got him to the hospital, doctors said, he had lost almost half the blood in his body and was close to death. As he recovered from his wounds in the hospital, many of Yerby's visitors asked him if he intended to go out and hunt down the shark that attacked him. "I said I had no reason to--he was in his element," says Yerby...
...adapted to its element. Sometimes growing to more than 20 ft. long and up to 4,000 lbs., it keeps its body temperature 5[degrees]F to 10[degrees]F higher than that of the surrounding water by recycling heat from its swimming muscles. This allows great whites to hunt in cooler seas. "It seems to make them more vigorous," says Van Sommeran. The sharks are voracious eaters of seals when they patrol the Red Triangle--a 100-mile strip of California coast from Bodega Bay to Santa Cruz. They have enormous livers to store energy...
Unlike tigers and bulls, great whites hunt mostly during the day, and their preferred method of attack is to shoot up vertically from 30 ft. down, knocking their prey right out of the water with the impact. Researchers in South Africa have produced spectacular footage of great whites leaping 15 ft. into the air with a seal in their teeth...
...JORGE VIDELA, 75, former Argentine dictator, for participating with five other South American despots, including Chile's Augusto Pinochet, in a scheme to kill leftist opponents; in Buenos Aires. Videla's junta sized power in a 1976 coup, and from then until 1981 collaborated with the other governments to hunt political exiles in their own countries. His regime is linked to the deaths of up to 30,000. SENTENCED. KHALFAN KHAMIS MOHAMED, 27, to life in prison for making explosives used to bomb the U.S. embassy in Tanzania in 1998, killing 11 people; in New York. The same jury...