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...other hand, sharks, which evolved before the dinosaurs some 350 million years ago, are of enormous scientific interest and play a vital role in ocean ecology. Ranging from the 0.1-m (6-in.) Caribbean dwarf dog shark to the 18-m (60-ft.) whale shark -- the world's biggest fish -- they boast keen intelligence and some of the sharpest senses in the ocean. Many of the 350 species are capable of hearing a wriggling fish up to a mile away, and most can smell the merest trace of blood in the ocean. The shark's eyes work like night-vision...
Thoughts of Jonah:The Yale Whale, as Ingalls Rink is aptly nicknamed, was not swimming with noise Saturday. Because of a lack of students--enjoying their vacation, no doubt--the capacity crowd was strangely silent, even with the Elis leading, 4-0. Yale still was able to cruise to its fourth staight home victory without the dangerous, rabid fans New Haven is famous for--maybe one of those partisan spectators will bite goaltender Ray Letourneau--who stymied the Crimson--if Harvard and yale meet again in the ECAC playoffs...
...Patricia Poore says she provides "tips and tools" for readers who "want to get off the consume-it, then trash-it treadmill." E, a bimonthly based in Norwalk, Conn., publishes a mixture of opinion and news articles and openly encourages political activism. At the end of a story about whale hunting, for instance, readers are invited to lobby for legislation that would protect the endangered mammals. By contrast, Buzzworm, a Boulder-based bimonthly (circ. 75,000), shies away from editorializing. "We're the only magazine that doesn't take a stand," boasts publisher Joseph Daniels. Instead the magazine specializes...
...Crimson has been blessed with eight league matchups at home this year, but will start to pay the price in January. The Crimson opens the new year with St. Lawrence and Clarkson, and then travels to the Yale Whale and Brown's Meehan Auditorium before breaking for exams...
Vermont entered Bright Center with a 5-0-1record in its last six games, the only blemish acontroversial tie in the Yale Whale. But with winsover middling squads like Army, Brown, Middlebury,Princeton and Dartmouth, the Catamounts had notproved themselves. They didn't against theCrimson, either...