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Sharks are unusually vulnerable to the fishermen's assault. "Top predators are not used to mortality threats and do not respond rapidly," says Gregor Cailliet of California's Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. Sharks generally take 10 to 15 years to reach sexual maturity. Most species reproduce only once every two years, and pregnancy typically lasts a year. With infant-mortality rates exceeding 50%, it is difficult for sharks to maintain their numbers...
Harvard's Brooke Bailey didn't fare as well as her Crimson counterpart. Bailey could not overcome an early first-game loss to Tiger Jackie Moss and fell...
What will it take for athletes to think differently about steroids? Maybe more cautionary tales like that of Rhory Moss, the 21-year-old star quarterback from New York's Hofstra University. For six weeks last year, he injected steroids into his buttocks, not to improve his football, he says, but to look good in a bathing suit for spring break. Within weeks, he added 12 lbs. to his 180-lb. frame. But an NCAA drug test detected his steroid use, and his coach sat him out of the semifinals of the NCAA Division III championship. His team lost...
Carothers is not alone. Suddenly, a freshet of environmental publications -- some old, like Greenpeace, some new -- is striving for a mainstream audience, feeding on the growing awareness of a planetary threat. "The world is going to hell, and people are reading about soap operas," scolds Doug Moss, founder of E, a year-old bimonthly (circ. 75,000), who sees his competition as "fluff magazines that I wish would go away." New titles like Garbage, Buzzworm and Design Spirit -- all aimed at general readers -- have joined Audubon, Mother Earth News and other more established journals that have recently increased their emphasis...
...although the U.S. has given Panama $130 million to pay off arrears on its $5 billion foreign debt, Washington has laid out only $70 million in direct aid. "What we're giving them is not even equal to direct damages caused by the invasion," says former U.S. Ambassador Ambler Moss, who estimates the destruction's price tag to be $1 billion. Meanwhile, the surge in global oil prices has dealt the country an unexpected and potentially disastrous blow. Totally dependent on imported oil, Panama expects to see its petroleum costs double to $300 million next year. Says Comptroller General Ruben...