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...baited hooks. Toss a line overboard, and up should come your desired prey--plus a lot of other hungry fish that you didn't mean to snag. "Longlines are designed to collect large marine predators," says biologist Julia Baum, lead author of the Science paper. "But sharks often swim in the same area as tuna and swordfish, and that means they can get caught...
...stuck in a pond in the San Francisco Zoo, it's not easy to swim to South America. That, however, is what a flock of 52 penguins appears to have been trying to do since Christmas Eve, and zookeepers admit they have no idea how to get them to stop...
After reading the “Swimming Against the Tide,” I would like to take a chance to respond as someone who is actually informed about the issues (Notebook, Dec. 13). On Nov. 26, Dartmouth administration called in its swimming and diving coaches at 8:00 a.m. and informed them that their program had been cut. An hour later, they called in both the men’s and women’s swim teams, informed them of their elimination, and requested that they go quietly. If this were truly “a last ditch effort?...
...teams, which is a nominal amount. Contrary to what Holoch suggests, there is no correlation that budget cuts last year contributed to sub-par athletic seasons. However, money is not an issue for Dartmouth anymore. The students and swimmers have raised enough money to have the swim team endowed forever. Harvard’s swim teams similarly operate almost entirely from alumni donations. As for the Dartmouth facilities, they do not require $20 million in renovations. This is how much it would cost to build a pool like Harvard’s or Princeton’s that can host...
...definitely helps to do different events from your regular events so you get a mental break from the races that you’re usually supposed to swim,” O’Beirne said. “It helps you to see where you are in other races. It helps people to have more fun in a meet because they feel less pressure...