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...population and a subsequent decline of the spiny-lobster fishery. Declining numbers of hammerhead sharks off the Florida panhandle may have allowed stingrays to reach record numbers there. "It's impossible to predict the implications of removing sharks from the food chain, but it could be disastrous," says shark specialist Sonja Fordham of the Center for Marine Conservation in Washington...
...changed agents three times in three years, partly because he thought he was losing out on meaty roles. "At Creative Artists Agency I was the action specialist; maybe I was also a bit lax and just became a gun for hire. Meanwhile Michael Douglas was getting these incredible parts: Basic Instinct, Falling Down. When I saw Al Pacino do Scent of a Woman--I would've killed for a role like that. The Usual Suspects? I would have been there in a second. People don't think of me in those terms. Maybe after this, they will...
Meanwhile, a group of biologists in central Texas may have come up with at least a partial solution to the Lyme problem. "We call it the four-poster," says John George, a tick specialist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Kerrville. It's a bin full of corn surrounded by specially angled rollers. As deer push in to eat the corn, the rollers coat the animal's head and neck with a pesticide that targets mites and ticks. Pilot studies on 50-acre plots have produced a 95% drop in the local tick population. "What's neat about this...
Gold prices have steadily declined since the '80s because with roaring stock markets and low inflation worldwide, sitting on noninterest-bearing gold makes little sense for governments. "There's no point in holding it," says Dale Henderson, a gold specialist at the Federal Reserve. That's true for individuals too. It doesn't mean you should sell your jewelry at a discount. Inflation could someday return, and besides, T-bills make lousy necklaces...
...There's less of a sense that the pinnacle in the field is to be able to teach a broad survey course, but to teach the narrow, specialist course, to be on the cutting edge," he says...