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...Shark Bay is the largest man-made shark lagoon in the world, giving bigger sharks enough space to perform a 60-m-long swim-glide pattern, a technique used by sharks at rest. The lagoon is also home to giant rays and schools of tropical fish. As for the deadly tiger sharks-don't worry. Public liability insurance does not allow for direct contact with these especially dangerous brutes. They are isolated in a separate pool behind a clear-glass screen that gives you the uncanny feeling that they're just inches away. In fact, the only predators you might...
...deploying a process called X-ray crystallography. First, they grew a Bace crystal. Then they exposed it to an array of X-rays. A protein is too small to be "seen" by a normal X-ray, but if run through a series of rays, it will produce a recognizable pattern of small dots - it's a bit like seeing the bear in the pattern of stars that make up Ursa Major. The crystallography technique was once used by legendary dna discoverers James Watson and Francis Crick. As Jhoti notes, "it took Watson and Crick over a decade just to image...
...with the publication of a bestselling book, The Hidden Face of Le Monde, by veteran journalists Pierre Péan and Philippe Cohen. Their allegations were sensational: a corrupt relationship with the head of the police union; gifts to Colombani for giving media training to a mayor; a pattern of blatantly favoring certain politicians (such as hapless 1995 presidential candidate Edouard Balladur). In June Le Monde agreed not to proceed with libel lawsuits against the authors, who in turn agreed not to republish their book, but the damage was done. The paper's finances may be in worse shape than...
...have been arrested since, the regional network of Islamic extremists blamed for Bali, Jemaah Islamiah, is still capable of undertaking an assault on Western interests, as demonstrated in September by the bombing outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta that killed 11. "The increased frequency of piracy attacks, the changing pattern of how the attacks are carried out, lead us to fear the worst, that an operation is being planned, the preliminary preparation is taking place, and the vessels are being readied," says Singapore's Tan. For its part, to tighten security, Singapore has stepped up patrols and random checks...
...tourism, music and fashion. International exchange students help us participate more fully in a world that is becoming increasingly linked by communication, transportation and trade. We must cooperate as we search for values that enhance life. Then we can leave the 21st century knowing that we have broken the pattern of divisiveness...