Word: sharked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...heart disease. Should you fish or cut bait? So far it's a draw, with two major studies coming to opposite conclusions. Until more studies are completed, doctors believe that the benefits of fish outweigh the risks, except for pregnant women and nursing moms, who should avoid swordfish and shark to protect their babies from mercury exposure...
Think of Storm Stories as Behind the Music with rain; it searches history and recent news for stories of struggle and triumph, from World War II sailors capsized in shark-infested waters to families made homeless by tornadoes. (If there isn't a storm on the radar, there's always one in the video vault.) Half an hour in length, the show is meant to extend the average viewer tune-in of 12 minutes. "If the same people watch 10% longer," says Burke, "it's the same as growing your ratings...
Many of us feel the call of the deep, but few of us are willing to face the cold, wet and occasionally shark-infested realities of scuba diving. That's why we need Spyfish, a gadget for divers who aren't quite ready to take the plunge. Spyfish is a battery-powered minisubmarine tricked out with cameras and floodlights and operated by wireless remote control. It trails a slender cable behind it that transmits whatever it sees back to a monitor topside, so you can rummage through Davy Jones' locker while sunning yourself on deck and sipping...
...DIED. MILES DABORD, 35, brother of former NBA player Bison Dele; in Chula Vista, California. Dabord was suspected of having killed Dele and two others aboard Dele's luxury catamaran near Tahiti and disposing of their bodies in the shark-infested waters. He died after his mother asked doctors to remove life-support that had been keeping him alive since Sept. 14, when he was found comatose on a Tijuana beach...
...show does when it pulls an outrageous stunt in a desperate attempt at a ratings boost--and usually suffers a terminal decline instead. The term, which the creators of jumptheshark.com say they coined, was inspired by the Happy Days episode in which a water-skiing Fonz jumps over a shark. Lately the term is being adopted in business to describe the point at which a once strong company or brand begins to slide. AutoWeek's review of the new turbocharged Volkswagen Beetle, for instance, says the car "threatens to jump the shark...