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...became cut off, trapping millions of jellyfish. Left in these protected waters, which are replenished through fissures in the limestone, the cnidaria evolved to primarily dine on the sugar produced by algae living in their cells. Free of predators (besides anemones on the lake shore), their stings have become too weak to be felt. Knowing this may be small comfort as you ease into the lake, but once beyond the point of no return you will find yourself in a silent world taking in sights that would challenge the vocabulary of even the best sci-fi writer...
Booker, a former tight end at Stanford whose hands are longer than the Jersey Shore, possesses the oratorical gifts of Obama (unlike the President, he shuns teleprompters) and the eagerness to engage that carried Bill Clinton to the top. Unlike Clinton, Booker sometimes needs to read crowds a bit better. At a community event, he dropped a reference to the television show Frasier while playing Simon Says with a few dozen African-American kids and their parents. (Frazier was the last name of one of the participants.) The kids were mystified...
Every year about this time, bluefish school off the New Jersey shore. For fishermen in the right spot, it's often a stunning abundance of fortune. One minute they're waiting patiently for a bite, and the next they can hook a bluefish with live bait, lures, a piece of baloney on a hook. The fish just can't help themselves...
...Soon enough, the feeding frenzy began. They got a mayor allegedly taking a bribe to get a construction permit. And then another. And then another. Do schools of corrupt mayors swim off the Jersey shore too? They got a rabbi picking up wads of cash in Brooklyn and laundering the money through a charity at his synagogue in Deal, N.J., on behalf of unknown persons in Israel. And as for petty officials of the Garden State - building inspectors, councilmen, deputy mayors and the like - you could imagine the FBI's relatively small office in Red Bank, N.J. frantically trying...
Earlier this year, the University's Chief Financial Officer Daniel S. Shore rejected this depiction of Harvard's finances, saying that the bond offering had been issued "quite competitively given market conditions at the time...