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...overused comparison of the risks of driving a car to the chances of being attacked by a shark is "de-bait-able." It does not comfort those of us who occasionally dip in the ocean to know that we may be one of a mere 10 or 15 people who are fatally wounded by a surprise shark attack each year. Driving has dangers that we can mitigate through a defensive approach. I'm not condoning the elimination of sharks, but I don't want one for my next water toy either. DON BRINTON Hanna, Alta...
Hacking off its fins and then throwing a shark back into the ocean to die is cruel. But fishing can also involve hooks and death by suffocation. As sentient beings, sharks and other fish deserve protection regardless of population issues. We can easily live without using them for food, medicine or other purposes. It is unfortunate that we, with our genius for economics, have not created alternatives for those who continue to practice a primitive livelihood. DAVID J. CANTOR Glenside...
...While this may look bad for Gore ? he made $695,000 out of these calls ? he'll probably emerge unscathed. After all, it is a drop in the ocean compared to the millions both parties snag in soft money contributions. In the absence of campaign finance reform, the real scandal is not what's illegal, but what's still legal...
...even Krenz got off lightly: The 60-year-old will serve only six-and-a-half years for six counts of manslaughter ? that's little over a year per civilian killed, and a drop in the 900-person ocean of people killed trying to escape from East Germany. "There's very little vendetta in the air," says TIME's Bonn bureau chief, Jordan Bonfante. "Germans are not in the mood for a witch hunt. They have enough problems trying to consolidate eastern into western Germany." Krenz, it seems, was simply the one holding the ball when the Wall fell...
...biggest fragment in the show, the head and shoulders of a colossal bronze dating from the 11th century. When complete, the figure must have been 20 ft. long: Vishnu Anantasayin, the god Vishnu in cosmic sleep, reclining on the back of the serpent Ananta, afloat on the primordial ocean. It was found by French archaeologists 60 years ago in the western baray (reservoir) of Angkor--a man-made lake five miles long--and despite its corroded and battered state, its missing eyebrows and moustache (which would have been gold), its empty eyes, it radiates an extraordinary sculptural power amounting...