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Klimley also discovered what may be the reason the hammerheads school year after year at an undersea mountain known as Espiritu Santo, 15 miles east of the Baja Peninsula. The metal-rich seamount, he found, has a particularly strong magnetic field. So do bands of ancient congealed lava that radiate from the seamount like spokes from a wheel. The hammerheads, he believes, can detect this magnetism and use it for navigation. The seamount is essentially a depot: the hammerheads gather there before going out to their feeding grounds...
...first-time visitor, the harbor promenade on the Kowloon peninsula side can appear as the city's focal and most active point. During the day, the harbor, despite the recent threats of rising pollution, typhoons and the practice of land reclamation, houses the world's busiest container port, with more than 100 ships arriving daily. Then, as the late hours of the afternoon arrive, the Indian fortune tellers, the joggers and California-style bladers, the myriad of couples waiting for dusk to come, all provide picturesque detail to the majestic scenario of the bay and Hong Kong Island's towering...
...energy and optimism, confirmed by opinion polls as well as by the uniquely frenetic dynamism of the recent months, when a $20.1 billion public works program was initiated. As part of this huge planning project, the world's longest suspension bridge, linking the island of Lantau with the peninsula of Kowloon has been opened...
...exchanges poems with wise, sand-hardened guides. Even when she goes fishing, she comes upon the "green unicorn fish," which uses its buckteeth to eat coral, and the "apricot-yellow" boxfish, which resembles "a lovely joke, a gift for a friend." The northern side of the Ras Benas peninsula of the Red Sea, she writes, is "a treasure trove of odd objects from around the world." In that regard, it is a perfect mirror of her book...
Others have speculated that Gomes was rendered cautious by some unfavorable campus reaction when he disclosed his own homosexuality at a 1992 rally protesting an issue of the conservative publication Peninsula which attacked homosexuality on biblical grounds...