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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...
Great whites are the most lethal to humans. Since 1876 there have been 254 confirmed nonprovoked attacks on humans by great whites, 67 of which were fatal, according to statistics compiled by the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Over the same period, tiger sharks have attacked 83 times with 29 fatalities, and bull sharks have attacked 69 times with 17 fatalities. Great white attacks on humans generally involve just one bite. Researchers are not sure, but most think the shark's sensory organs quickly differentiate between humans and the blubber-rich seals it prefers...
...Shaolin Temple at 16. At 25 Li Lianjie came to Hong Kong, got the name Jet Li and brought a ferocious stateliness to such martial epics as Once Upon a Time in China and Fong Sai Yuk. At 35 he played in his first big U.S. film, Lethal Weapon 4, and showed Mel Gibson how real men fight: with stern grace and fatal feet. His debut as a Hollywood star, in Romeo Must Die, took in $100 million world- wide. He has just signed a deal with Miramax Films worth $10 million a picture. In China, movie stars are called...
...hands of the wrong people, however, it became lethal. For months Calcutta's brokers have been pointing fingers at a Bombay operator named Ketan Parekh, a.k.a. the Big Bull. Parekh is a major-league broker who, starting last September, was taking mammoth positions in several high-profile tech stocks. When his positions topped the maximum allowed by regulators, he allegedly began placing orders through a group of Calcutta operators, including Dinesh Singhania, a local broker widely disliked for his lavish tastes and arrogance. Since most of these orders were financed with gray money, they couldn't be traced back...
Person of the Week EXECUTING JUSTICE? The lethal injection of unrepentant Oklahoma City Federal Building bomber Timothy McVeigh sparked a heated round of debate over capital punishment?both in the U.S. and abroad, where the issue cast a shadow over President George W. Bush's trip to Europe...