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...hours filming on Batt Reef, says Irwin had come too close to a bull ray. Citing a colleague who saw footage of the attack, Cropp says Irwin had accidently boxed the animal in, causing it to attack. "It stopped and twisted and threw up its tail with the spike, and it caught him in the chest," says Cropp. "It's a defensive thing. It's like being stabbed with a dirty dagger." Says Cropp: "It's a one-in-a-million thing. I have swum with many rays, and I have only had one do that...
...hours filming on Batt Reef, says Irwin had come too close to a bull ray. Citing a colleague who saw footage of the attack, Cropp says Irwin had accidently boxed the animal in, causing it to attack. "It stopped and twisted and threw up its tail with the spike, and it caught him in the chest," says Cropp. "It's a defensive thing. It's like being stabbed with a dirty dagger." Says Cropp: "It's a one-in-a-million thing. I have swum with many rays, and I have only had one do that...
Then why the recent spike in performance? One thing quant funds have had going for them lately is a market that favors value. Hyped-up fast-growing companies haven't done as well as more established, steady firms--and the latter are the sort of stock that quant investors often end up with. That's because their process, which usually includes hypothesis-testing an idea before it's added to the computer model, relies on historical data, and growth companies tend to work because of what has yet to happen. The fabulous returns of the past few years...
...working with a consultant forces students to decide who they are as they shape their self-portraits and what sacrifices they are willing to make in the course of their college search. Emma Robson, 17, a junior in Westport, Conn., found herself wrestling with a consultant who tried to spike her favorite activity of the entire year, her seven weeks at a summer camp on Moose Pond in Maine, where she and a bunch of girls she has known since she was 10 sing campfire songs and canoe and make lanyards. Many of her classmates will be spending their summers...
...perhaps count ourselves lucky that the snakes are not permitted carry-on luggage - no hair gels, no spray-on deodorants - and its producers may perhaps count themselves lucky in a release date that coincides with a spike in in-flight anxiety. Or maybe not. Maybe no one wants to reminded just now of the underlying fragility of our travel arrangements. But its core audience - teen-agers out for a good time on a Saturday night - are not, as a rule frequent fliers, and I suspect that they'll have some fun with Snakes on a Plane. The director, David...