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...nice people, we Americans, with 225 years of optimism at our backs. So last Wednesday when M.J., after months of teasing and toying, of shedding 25 lbs. and of endless practices, finished the year's most journalist-packed golf game not involving Tiger Woods and said he had make a decision about returning to the NBA in September, we got excited. He had said the day before, "I look forward to playing, and hopefully I can get to that point where I can make that decision. It's O.K. to have some doubt, and it's O.K. to have some...
...great white is perfectly adapted to its element. Sometimes growing to more than 20 ft. long and up to 4,000 lbs., it keeps its body temperature 5[degrees]F to 10[degrees]F higher than that of the surrounding water by recycling heat from its swimming muscles. This allows great whites to hunt in cooler seas. "It seems to make them more vigorous," says Van Sommeran. The sharks are voracious eaters of seals when they patrol the Red Triangle--a 100-mile strip of California coast from Bodega Bay to Santa Cruz. They have enormous livers to store energy...
...bull shark, Carcharhinus leucas, usually grows no longer than 10 ft. and weighs up to 500 lbs., but what it lacks in size it makes up for in aggressiveness. Experts regard it as the 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...
BORN. To a devout Muslim couple wishing to remain anonymous; SEPTUPLETS, five boys and two girls, only the third set of surviving septuplets in the world, each weighing about 2 to 2 1/2 lbs.; at Georgetown University Hospital; in Washington. Though listed in critical condition, the seven initially seemed healthy, and one--the smallest--is breathing on her own. Dr. Siva Subramanian, chief of neonatology at Georgetown, said of the littlest septuplet, "Somebody said girls are tougher. It's absolutely true...
...Bonds. Early in his career, when he was a stolen-base threat and the only player in history to be named Most Valuable Player three out of four seasons, Bonds was built like a track star. Today he's clearly bigger, listed at a defensive back-ish 230 lbs., but he insists, "I have trained the same way for the last 11 years... You can't really explain it. I come around and touch home plate and I'm in the dugout, and I'm like, 'What the hell did I just...