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...prey, it is the right time to feed, and the target is the right size. At sunset on July 6 off Pensacola, Fla., Jessie Arbogast, 8, apparently fit the needs of a bull shark. Dusk is one of the shark's feeding periods; the boy was in the shallow water where the bull prowls; and splashing about, Jessie may have seemed to be a large fish. The shark pounced. The ensuing attack and the boy's struggle to survive have stirred an inchoate fascination--part fancy, part dread--with nature's sleekest predator...
...that has concerned me most of my life: my own--and I'm not proud of that. In my business, there's so much emphasis on beauty and glamour and having the perfect body. It was not until a life-altering event threatened my looks that I realized how shallow this...
...somewhat shorter than most of its nine predecessors, offers the same mix of the macabre and the moral that Irving's army of admirers has come to expect. For the loss of his hand isn't Wallingford's principal problem. His extraordinary good looks have rendered him vain and shallow. As one of his countless lovers tells him, "It's been flattering, for a while, to be with a man who can so thoroughly lose himself in a woman. On the other hand, there's so little you in you that I suspect you could lose yourself in any woman...
Sneaking out of North Korea involves the simple act of fording the narrow Tumen river into China. It's so shallow in some places a child can do it. Moving on to another country?that's a tough one. As many as a quarter million North Korean refugees have crossed the line but remain near the border, hiding from Chinese police. So when seven members of the Jang family blazed an audacious trail to freedom, China wasn't sure how to react. After a complex trek in which a South Korean businessman led them to Beijing, the Jangs gathered June...
...shuts down the opportunity to do anything productive to reduce our dependence on foreign oil." Oil companies are particularly disappointed to lose a "stovepipe" portion of the area that extended straight up toward Mobile and the tip of the Florida panhandle, thought to contain rich natural-gas deposits in shallow water...