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...Helping shore up the backfield will be sophomore Katie Urbanic, who started five games for the Crimson last year, as well as newcomers Lauren Cozzolino and Kathleen Ferguson. Both freshmen have seen significant playing time in each of the Crimson's two games so far. Ferguson actually scored the first goal of her collegiate career against Vermont last Friday...
...that tradition has been maintained. The last convicts arrived in New South Wales in 1840, and many were absorbed into gangs, or pushes, of "larrikins"-hooligans. The Forty Thieves of the Rocks and the Iron House Mob of Woolloomooloo segued neatly last century into fearsome razor gangs; the North Shore, nowadays so sedate, was terrorized by the Gore Hill Tigers and the Blues Point...
...held that American films and TV fare have created an outrageously false impression of his native Australia. In response to the "Crocodile Dundee" stereotypes, Hughes lets fly this week with a look at the Olympic-host country that is based on his six-part documentary, Australia: Beyond the Fatal Shore, which airs this Tuesday through Thursday on PBS. Hughes, who is back in top form while still mending from a near fatal car crash last year, calls the series "a corrective to the very sketchy and almost invariably wrong picture of Australia that most Americans have. We are not your...
...kidding. Volusia is home to several species of reef sharks, including black tips and spinners, that are born in the spring and learn to hunt by summer. The sharks move close to shore, chasing baitfish as the water temperature warms up. "They get into the surf line and get disoriented, and they start biting whatever moves," says Joe Wooden, deputy chief of Volusia County's beach patrol...
...shark attack is rarely fatal, but it can be terrifying. Training for a triathlon on Gulf Shores Beach, Ala., Chuck Anderson watched in horror as a shark took off his fingertips, then kept coming back. "The fourth time, my right arm went into his mouth, and we went down to the bottom," he says. Anderson fought for his life, with the shark biting up and down on his arm until he heard the bone snap and break off in the shark's mouth. Anderson made it to shore and survived. He doesn't blame the shark for taking...