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Great whites are the most lethal to humans. Since 1876 there have been 254 confirmed nonprovoked attacks on humans by great whites, 67 of which were fatal, according to statistics compiled by the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Over the same period, tiger sharks have attacked 83 times with 29 fatalities, and bull sharks have attacked 69 times with 17 fatalities. Great white attacks on humans generally involve just one bite. Researchers are not sure, but most think the shark's sensory organs quickly differentiate between humans and the blubber-rich seals it prefers...
...make multiple copies for distribution. And as digital publishing becomes more common, the duplication of content keeps getting easier and more practical. Instead of standing at the photocopier for hours to make an illicit copy of a John Grisham novel, you can in theory now just copy a file and email it to thousands of your close personal friends - and Mr. Grisham and his publisher wouldn't see a dime...
...software that came free with my external CD-R drive (a Hewlett-Packard 8200, one of the most popular). It refused to recognize most of the tunes on my hard drive, which meant I had to hunt for another program that would convert those songs into a more amenable file format. Even then, the ungrateful software served up a CD with pops and clicks after every track...
...took the reigns at the NACP in 1999, says many Sierra Leoneans believe the disease is a Western conspiracy to deprive Africans of pleasure and fill the coffers of foreign aid groups. "They tell me AIDS stands for American Intentions to Discourage Sex," says Moses, sitting in his tiny, file-filled office in Freetown's moldering Connaught Hospital. "Or people think you have come to aid them. The word confuses them. One thought I wanted to build him a house...
...their legal advisors. "We are looking specifically for wanted felons and missing children," he says. "If you don?t fall into one of those categories, there?d be no match for you in the computer system. The misconception is that everyone?s photo is taken and then kept on file. That?s not true. If there?s no match to your photo, it?s dropped immediately. That?s unlike convenience stores or ATM vestibules, both of which have videotaped patrons for years...