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...felt piercing pains in her left thigh. She saw blood in the water--her blood. Then she saw the point of a dorsal fin circling back toward her. Not sure what to do--freeze or try to kick it away--she made a frantic run for the beach, screaming, "Shark, shark, shark...
...word barracuda, and people say, 'What?' Say the word shark, and you've got panic on the Fourth of July." So spoke the fictional mayor of Amity Island in the hit movie Jaws. Just in time for the summer blockbuster's 25th anniversary, an increase in shark attacks along the nation's southern beaches is bringing back the movie's memorable teaser: "Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water..." So far this year in Florida, 21 people have been bitten--on track to surpass the 25 attacks in 1999. Recent victims include a surfer...
...come to walk the white beaches, bask in the sun and surf the foamy waves. The more people in the water, the more chance for attacks. "When we enter the ocean, we're not owed a right to be 100% safe," says George Burgess, director of the International Shark Attack File at the University of Florida, which collects data on shark attacks. "This is truly a wilderness experience. It's not like going into our backyard pool...
...that the famous crime buster hails from a family of crooks. Rudy's deceased father Harold was convicted of burglary at 15 and armed robbery at 26; he went on to be a baseball-bat-wielding debt collector for Rudy's uncle Leo D'Avanzo, a "petty mafioso" loan shark. For Giuliani, who may not have known about his father's imprisonment (he won't comment but hasn't disputed Barrett's account), this has been one lousy year so far--which may have moved Hillary to offer him some kind words last week. "Anyone feels empathy toward any person...
...summer barbecue needs a shark story, and boy do I have one for you. This week, two great white sharks were filmed systematically hunting down an unlucky surfer in South Africa. In the film, courtesy of a watching tourist, one of the sharks is actually seen riding a wave as he moves in to take a huge chomp of the guy's surfboard. But what really confounded the scientists was the other great white seen zeroing in for the kill from the other side. Unbelievably, the surfer survived to tell the story. Apparently great whites do not like the taste...