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...most pugnacious of sharks. It has, according to Robert Hueter, director of the Center of Shark Research at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Fla., the highest level of testosterone in any animal, including lions and elephants. Its lower spiked teeth are designed to hold prey while the upper triangular serrated teeth gouge out flesh. "The bull is an ambush type of predator, it makes this big mortal wound," says Hueter. It is fearless, taking on prey as large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Can't We Be Friends? | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...grave markers, masks and doors--end up in the U.S. and Europe, where collectors prize such items as the 16th century Benin bronze castings whose technical finesse rivals works produced by Europeans of the same era. Among the most sought-after items are figurines from Kawu, with their distinctive triangular eyes and abstracted features, remnants of the Nok culture that flourished in central Nigeria from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looting Africa | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...Farm, 1987, is positively goofy. There is a steeply sloping hill with, near the bottom, a tree growing out at a wacky angle. Just above the tree is the farmhouse, which, with its angled porch roof, looks like the profile of a silly face staring in surprise down its triangular nose at the tree. Most recently, after a move out of San Francisco in the mid-'90s, Thiebaud embarked on a series of brightly colored, sharply divided, wildly patterned landscapes of the Sacramento River delta, seen from way up, as though from a plane--for example, River and Farms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Poet Of Pastry | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...Crimson is retracting four articles by Irina Serbanescu `03 which appeared in The Crimson's weekly arts supplement. The preview of Sweet Charity, published Nov. 9, 2000, Singing Swashbucklers, published on Dec. 8, 2000, Love is Everything, but Does it Lead to Happiness? A Triangular Dilemna, published on Feb. 23, 2001 and 'No Way to Treat' an Audience, published on March 9, 2001 all contained material taken from other sources without attribution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Retraction | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...Online T-shirts are doing the hair painting near the back of the crowd. One of the workers had a cardboard sheet with a triangle cut out in the middle, presumably allowing her to make a concertgoer a patriotic Brazilian and a perhaps unknowing advertisement for the American Online triangular corporate logo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock in Rio, Part 3 | 1/18/2001 | See Source »

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