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LEXINGTON, Va.: An unnamed female freshman, one of the first 30 women to be admitted to the Virginia Military Institute, dropped out last night. One down, twenty-nine to go ? or so the reprobates who dumped 30 dead lab rats in a towel marked "Save the Males" on the VMI's parade ground yesterday might think...
...happens, the university's shark-research lab is located on Coconut Island, right in the middle of the bay, so Lowe can study them easily. In order to understand how much impact a hammerhead has on the bay ecosystem, Lowe is trying to learn how much energy it expends and how much food that takes. He has designed a miniature sensor that attaches to the baby shark's back and registers every beat of the tail as the shark swims along. By feeding the babies a precise amount of fish, then putting them in a tank with constantly flowing water...
This time Kim Holland, director of the shark lab, suggested a more judicious approach: first figure out how the sharks actually behave. If they keep to a small territory, a locally targeted eradication program could reduce the danger. But if they have no territorial allegiance, an aggressive animal might kill and disappear, never to return, and slaughtering the sharks that remained might not help...
...equipment, to do their fieldwork. But lately that's changed. With the contraction of federal science budgets and the expansion of the World Wide Web, private research is going decidedly public. From astronomy to epidemiology to archaeology, more and more professionals are finding that when you're looking for lab assistants to collect good data at a bargain price, you can't beat the amateurs on the Internet...
When he found Lam on the floor of the nearly darkened lab, Martinez said he thought his friend had "worked so hard he fell asleep...