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Scientists ultimately hope to de-mythologize sharks, to erase their images as rogue man-eaters like the great white shark that figures in Jaws, the Peter Benchley novel turned Steven Spielberg movie classic. Benchley, who says he is now "a full-time ocean conservationist," told TIME last week, "I couldn't write Jaws today." After 25 years of research, the demonization of sharks doesn't hold, he says. "It used to be believed that great white sharks did target humans; now we know that except in the rarest of instances, great white shark attacks are mistakes." Dr. Robert...
Researchers who have been observing great whites off the Farallon Islands west of San Francisco think they know why sharks mistake humans for seals. Peter Pyle, a biologist for the Point Reyes Bird Observatory, notes that the majority of great whites that attack humans are in the 8-to-12-ft. range--inexperienced juveniles making the diet transition from fish to bigger, more nourishing seals. "They are learning a new hunting technique and may mistake surfers for seals," says Pyle. Once the sharks get bigger and more experienced, they appear better able to differentiate between seals and humans...
...hour after sunset on that Saturday, Lees and 28-year-old Peter Falconio, six months into the Australian leg of their round-the-world holiday, were cruising in their orange Volkswagen campervan?Falconio at the wheel?when a white four-wheel-drive pickup drew alongside. The driver gestured that he could see sparks coming from the exhaust of the campervan and, after some discussion about whether to heed him, the couple pulled over. Falconio inspected the van with the stranger, then came to the front and asked Lees to rev the engine. When he walked behind the van again, Lees...
...Winners RICHARD PRYOR Comedian's hometown of Peoria names seven city blocks after him. Note to self: bone up on racial profanities and consume copious drugs ALEXANDER KARADJORDJEVIC Son of King Peter II returns to Belgrade palace after Milosevic vacates. Keeps 900-number Rolodex, but tosses Benny Hill bootlegs JOHN MAJOR Life and times of this bionic man will be made into West-End musical?no wait, that's Lee Majors. Who exactly is this guy? Losers IRA EINHORN Old hippie activist is finally extradited for the murder of his girlfriend. Says a government plot kept him stoned...
...LAURA BUSH, U.S. First Lady Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography by PETER J. CONN "I always read every night for 30 or 40 minutes at least. Sometimes [the President] asks me to turn out the light, and sometimes I have to ask him. It depends on who's sleepiest...