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...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...
...fabrics?including XDSkin, a water-repellent fiber that keeps perspiration from saturating a garment?found in Speedo's new line were inspired by its FastSkin swimsuit, worn by gold-medal-winning Olympic competitors Michael Phelps and Amanda Beard. FastSkin was inspired by the slick, water-propelling features of a shark's skin...
...nearby village that had a public telephone. Eventually, we got the cell number of Ramo's Colombian pilot. It turns out that while in flight over the Caribbean, the single-prop had conked out. Ramo and the pilot together got it re-started as it plummeted toward the water (shark-infested, of course!) and managed to make an emergency landing in a different cow pasture - about 50 miles away, in rebel territory. There was no way Ramo would make it to the Casta?o interview, although on the crackly phone line I could hear him and the pilot tinkering with...