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...ZAMBIA Tiger fish may only weigh between 2 and 10 kg, but they're aquatic pit bulls with razor-sharp teeth and a fighting spirit that'll test the strongest angler. This is a dominant predator in several rivers, including the Upper and Lower Zambezi. Contact Go Fishing Worldwide, tel: (44-20) 8742 1556; www.gofishingworldwide.co.uk...
...skein of roads in the area, restricted to Israelis, run through barren no-go zones where every tree and plant and dwelling has been bulldozed for a hundred yards. Thriving hothouses and comfortable red-roofed villas set in lush, green gardens spread across the dunes, huddling inside rings of razor wire and electric fence. Three-story military watchtowers draped in camouflage rear up out of back gardens, and tanks patrol the perimeters. The only Palestinians allowed within view are the laborers who come in each day to work in the hothouses. And when the Palestinians go home, they pass through...
Police in New Haven last month arrested Smiley, a resident of the Martha’s Vineyard town of Chilmark, after he allegedly dropped a razor blade on the floor of Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The police later found seven maps, worth $900,000, in Smiley’s possession. The British Library in London, the Newberry Library in Chicago, and the Boston Public Library have also reported missing materials...
...there are the ones who leave us wanting more. Michael Jordan did it twice, in 1993 after three straight championships with the Bulls, and again in 1998, after a second troika of titles (we can just forget that stint with the Wizards, right)? Ted Williams, eye sharper than a razor at age 41, hit a homer in his last at bat. Barry Sanders might have rushed for 25,000 yards...
DIED. JOHN OSTROM, 77, Yale paleontologist who popularized the theory that dinosaurs are linked with modern birds; of pneumonia; in Litchfield, Conn. With the 1964 discovery of a two-legged creature with razor-sharp claws he called Deinonychus, or "terrible claw," and subsequent work cementing his theory, he began a campaign, largely successful, to convince scientists that at least some of the prehistoric beings were not, as long assumed, slow, dim-witted reptiles but speedy, warm-blooded, carnivorous predators that had much in common with today's flightless birds...