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Kohler: There's also the concept of going somewhere no one has ever been, that has been lost to mankind from the moment it slipped beneath the waves. You're constantly immersed - mind the pun - in this alien marine environment and you really never know what's going to quite literally come over your shoulder...
...have never much believed in natural selection, a trip to Madagascar would likely change your mind. The flora and fauna here, having developed for some 80 million years in virtual isolation from the rest of the world, have taken some curious evolutionary turns. The nocturnal aye-aye, for instance, has a long, skeletal middle finger that enables it to retrieve grubs from inside trees; the hook-billed vanga evolved a curved bill for a similar reason, while the horned-leaf chameleon can change color to match the dead leaves on the floor of western Madagascar's dry deciduous forest...
...Cameron S. H. Winklevoss (CW): It was an amazing experience. Rowing in college, you always have in the back of your mind what it would be like to row in the Olympics. We set out from college to try and achieve that, so to have that happen was a pretty amazing experience...
...Mind you, I'm not saying that business reporters failed at their jobs by not adequately foreseeing the disaster. I'm not saying they didn't, either - the thing about media criticism is that you can't possibly be an expert on everyone's beat, and I don't pretend to. (The Columbia Journalism Review says business-journalism failure was a possibility, though...
...Israeli rightists, akin to what Palestinian and Arab nationalists started going through three decades ago, when Israel was in the prime of its strategic strength. The shift is evident not only in Olmert's prescription for a peace settlement, but also in his severe critique of a righteous Israeli mind-set that has turned out to be self-destructive...