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...these are terrestrial and mundane risks. Sharks lurk in the vast, mysterious ocean, an element that still stirs mythic fear. Science is shedding light on why sharks behave the way they do. Researchers are tracking sharks via satellites and coming closer to understanding why they attack humans. The three large sharks that account for most attacks on people--the great whites, the tigers and the bull sharks--have been studied extensively. We now know that great white sharks keep their blood warmer than the surrounding water, that tiger sharks do not return to the site of an attack to prey...
...most consumers, though, if there's no building, no tellers and no long lines, there's no bank. "For the vast majority of people, dull and boring are exactly the attributes they're looking for in a bank," says Octavio Marenzi, managing director at research firm Celent Communications...
...single company could control all the foreign broadcasts everyone in China watched on TV, it would make a lot of money. If that company was owned by the communist government, the vast Chinese masses might only see and hear what those authorities wanted them to. But in the messy modern world of information anarchy, could Beijing's overlords ever succeed in such a plan...
...burn a lot of budget posting a correspondent and camera crew outside the Miami relatives' house, waiting to catch little Elian on the jungle gym. Minimal expenses are an important point at a time when the business of journalism has pretty much been absorbed (by acquisitions and mergers) into vast corporate organisms that tend to see journalism in terms of entertainment product and bottom line...
...across the country designed for Mom, Dad, the kids--and Grandma and Grandpa. Hope has taken this natural, practical template a step farther. Qualified adults who commit to adopting up to four kids are offered free rent, a $19,000 salary for one parent to stay home and a vast network of support. Low-to-middle-income seniors receive reduced rent in exchange for volunteering a minimum of six hours a week. The result--a near miracle in a society dominated by divorce and generational disjunction--is a place where everyone knows everyone else, a stimulating haven for seniors...