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There's an old saying that advising at the top Ivys can be compared to a swimming lesson: at Princeton, they walk next to you in the pool, teaching you to swim, and at Yale, they walk beside the pool, coaching you from the sidelines...
...left. At her right was an enormously rich, well-known man who had apparently also made a major contribution to this particular cause. He told her of the wonderful swimming pool he had at his place in Paris, and wouldn't she like to come swim sometime? At that she turned to me, smiled and made an expression that said, "Do you believe this guy? Do you see what I go through...
...television as a baby sitter, and we wanted people to think about these things." The first tuneout week unfortunately coincided with both a nasty cold snap and sweeps week but, lo and behold, the local community center offered free ice skating, the ymca set up an evening swim, a nearby museum offered free programs ... "By the end of the week," says Marder, "we had parents telling us they wanted to do this every year...
...across the Pacific, marine biologist A. Peter Klimley of the University of California at Davis has for decades been getting his own incredible insights into shark behavior, frequently by taking risks others would call insane. While a graduate student in the 1970s, Klimley became the first scientist ever to swim directly into schools of adult hammerhead sharks. He dived as deep as 70 ft. without scuba gear so his air bubbles wouldn't disturb the skittish fish...
...Gulf of Alaska, for example, are computerized ships as large as football fields. Their nets--wide enough to swallow a dozen Boeing 747s--can gather up 130 tons of fish in a single sweep. Along with pollock and other groundfish, these nets indiscriminately draw in the creatures that swim or crawl alongside, including halibut, Pacific herring, Pacific salmon and king crab. In similar fashion, so-called longlines--which stretch for tens of miles and bristle with thousands of hooks--snag not just tuna and swordfish but also hapless sea turtles and albatrosses, marlin and sharks...