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...heartbeat. Indeed, Holland's team in Hawaii routinely tricks baby hammerheads at Coconut Island into striking at electrodes dangling in the water. Adult sharks, apparently drawn by the same process, have been known to bite through undersea cables. Holland is planning to investigate what sorts of electric signal might repel rather than attract sharks--protecting not just hardware but people as well...
Dvide and remain unconquered. ITT Corp.'s twist on a classic strategy is sure to repel Hilton Corp., which made a $6.5 billion offer for the owner of Sheraton hotels and Caesar's casinos earlier this year. For the second time in two years, ITT is slicing itself into three separate, publicly traded companies. The parts will be ITT Destinations, a hospitality and gaming company; ITT Corp., publisher of overseas Yellow Pages directories; and ITT Educational Services, a group of technical schools...
Puritanism produced nothing in the way of religious art except some tombstones and a few peculiar carvings, known as spirit stones, meant to repel devils. This wasn't because the Puritans hated art in principle--they didn't, as their portraiture, decorated furniture and other artifacts show--but because they disapproved of images of God and the prophets as "popish," too close to the idolatry they associated with the hated religion of Rome. They were, after all, the direct descendants of the iconoclasts who had destroyed nearly all the medieval art of England. The early New Englanders were people...
...advance to the national final, Radcliffe must repel Princeton, the two-time defending champion, in the first round...
...boys in civilian clothes, armed with rifles and machine guns, keep watch over the main coastal road, halting the few cars on the move, checking documents and asking questions. The tall man in charge of the group is Krenar Hoxha, who says, "We are waiting in the hills to repel the army of Berisha." Young insurgents fire their weapons into the air and shout, "Down with Berisha...