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...they hang out and fool around, rather like human teenagers. Then five more bears stroll out of the forest--a female with a golden cub and another mother with two cubs. The mothers nurse the 18-month-old cubs and scoop up some of the hundreds of thousands of salmon on their way up the inlet to spawn and die. Then another bear appears, followed by tiny triplets. This excites my guide, Owen Nevin, a Utah State University doctoral student whose subject is inlet bears, even more than it does me. It's unusual, he explains, for anyone...
...grizzlies in North America. Up to three times as many live here as in all the U.S. Not only can I commune (at a safe distance) with the bears; I can get amazingly close to orcas, bald eagles, ospreys, sea otters and seals. I can even swim with the salmon, which I did on Vancouver Island on my way to Knight Inlet...
Just as supportive as the staff at Knight Inlet were those at Paradise Found Adventure Tours (www.paradisefound.bc.ca), where I swam with the salmon. The opportunity to get up close and personal with salmon was high on my agenda for this trip, because most of the animals I would see depend for their survival on these fish. As the sun set on Campbell River in Vancouver Island, I drifted with the current through clear water. Because my guide, Jamie Turko, was so determined to protect me, I could totally focus on one of nature's great mysteries: the journey of Pacific...
...sprinters Michael Johnson and Maurice Green moved their gums as fast as their legs, trading insults at a record pace. On the human-interest front, there was Marla Runyan, legally blind, qualifying for the team at 1,500 m, and Gabe Harmony Jennings, a happy eccentric from Forks of Salmon, Calif., announcing himself as a miler to be reckoned with. Finally there was Magnificent Marion Jones qualifying for what seemed to be every event...
Wall Street's battalion of corporate sleuths has rarely been more in focus. Many of them make upwards of $1 million annually, some for doing little more than repeating the cheery stuff they hear over smoked salmon and white asparagus in the executive dining rooms of the companies they follow. They are so conflicted they almost never advise selling a stock, resorting to code to tip off clients when things aren't on track. For example, buy really means sell if the stock was previously rated a strong...