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...example, marine biologist Chris Lowe, a colleague of Meyer's at the University of Hawaii, has developed an ingenious way to measure the role of one shark, the hammerhead, in a well-defined environment. Every year thousands of hammerhead pups are born in Kaneohe Bay, on the east shore of Oahu. (About 40% of shark species lay eggs; the rest bear live young, and some of these carry their young just as mammals do, with an umbilical cord connecting the fetus to the uterus.) For the next 12 months or so, the baby hammerheads are an integral part...
...ration their dole-outs to families and single parents with children. Other organizations feel the impact as well. Share Our Strength, a Washington-based nonprofit organization, provides funding for more than 500 food-based groups. "Many of the agencies we support are seeing big jumps," says Bill Shore, the group's executive director. Phil Shanholtzer, a U.S. Department of Agriculture spokesman, says the federal agency is hearing anecdotal evidence of food-demand increases through its state and regional offices. He says a report will be released by the USDA later this year assessing "food insecurity" in America...
...recall how simple it used to be. Back in the '30s, when their fathers came to build the WPA beach-front barriers, vacant lots were auctioned for $50 apiece. "Anyone who bought land and held onto it made money," says Fish Powell, especially after Highway 50 connected the Eastern Shore to the restless mainland. Now the price of a lot is in the high five figures, as the town's permanent population of 6,000 swells to 300,000 at the peak of the summer. So lately the conversation is all about handling growth, about seasonal workers and traffic flow...
...early 1980s helped engineer Conrail's financial turnaround. In the mid-1980s, as president of Central Maine Power, he steered the divestiture of the controversial Seabrook nuclear plant. Rowe compares himself to the pilot of Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi, "navigating shifting waters" where "the shore is never quite the same...
Hughes, who came to TIME in 1970, has made a career of balancing weekly art criticism with books and TV projects. American Visions follows such Hughes best sellers as The Culture of Complaint and The Fatal Shore; the TV series takes its place with his 1981 series (and book) The Shock of the New. What's next? "Give me a break," he says. "I'm going to catch some fish, strangle some crocodiles, sing macho songs...