Word: sharked
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...being canceled in the U.S.--triggered a bidding war that ended with Britain's Channel 4 purchasing rights for a reported $800,000 an episode. The antihero appeal of craggy-faced actor James Woods, coupled with crisp writing and storytelling, has made CBS's new legal drama series Shark desirable to foreign broadcasters this season, commanding seven figures per episode, which was unheard-of even four years ago. "Every country has crime issues. And even though legal systems are quite different, it's more about the pursuit of criminals and preventing someone who is guilty of getting away with...
...called to plead my case. How could a $45.08 pair of sneakers result in a $70.58 charge? O.K., I was two days late. Still, the $25 late fee and 50¢ finance charge came to a whopping annualized penalty rate of more than 21,000%. A local loan shark would have cut me a better deal. The Kohl's rep's response: "It's perfectly legal, and everybody does...
...mistake? Anthony Lake, President Clinton's first national security adviser, isn't sure. "To the degree a democracy is present, anything you say can, and will, be held against you by political opponents. If you admit a mistake now, it's like putting a cut finger in a shark tank." Therefore, says Lake, who now teaches at Georgetown University, "it is extremely important, whatever a government might say in public, that it can see the situation clearly in private...
...walking shark may sound like a mutant nightmare, but the creature's discovery was a scientific dream. The epaulette shark-actually a shy, 1-m-long bottom-feeder-is one of more than 50 species of fish, shrimp and coral previously unknown to science that researchers from the environmental NGO Conservation International (CI) reported discovering off the Bird's Head peninsula of Indonesia's Papua province. Last year, a CI team uncovered dozens of new bird and plant species in Papua's Foja Mountains. This time, the group's study of the region's equally rich waters left its marine...
What's killing the sea otters? Sometimes the cause is clear: a shark bite, a bullet, an outboard motor. But about one-quarter of last year's fatalities have been traced to a pair of protozoan parasites, Toxoplasma gondii and Sarcocystis neurona, that are known to breed in cats and opossums. Could sea otters be dying because California cat owners are flushing used litter down the toilet...