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...should never have looked at its teeth. For the past 15 minutes, this 6-ft. tiger shark has been hog-tied alongside our small flat-bottomed motorboat, tossing in choppy seas two miles off Waikiki Beach, in Honolulu. Carl Meyer, a graduate student at the University of Hawaii, has been busy the whole time--slipping a noose around the powerful tail, flipping the shark on its back to put it into a stupor, measuring it this way and that, then shouting the numbers to his colleagues on the larger boat that bobs in the waves nearby...
...works, Meyer repeats under his breath, over and over, "No biting, no biting, no biting..." The object of his mantra gapes below us--a foot-wide crescent studded with hundreds of razor-sharp, serrated, half-inch-long triangular teeth. This fish is only half-grown--an adult tiger shark can surpass 14 ft. in length--but it could easily take off a hand or an arm, or a chunk of torso you wouldn't want to try and live without...
...consummate predator. The truth is that people have always been terrified by sharks, probably since humans first ventured into the sea. Who can blame them? As any survivor or witness well knows, a shark attack, especially by one of the larger species considered man-eaters--great whites, bull sharks, tiger sharks--is mind-numbing in its speed, violence, gore and devastation...
...ocean ecosystem has been evolving over hundreds of millions of years as an integrated whole--a biological machine in which each component has a vital function. For most sharks, that function is to serve as what biologists call an apex predator, the ocean equivalent of a lion or tiger or bear. Not only do they keep prey populations in check, but they also tend to eat the slowest, weakest and least wily individuals. In so doing, they improve the target species' gene pool, leaving the smarter, stronger individuals to reproduce...
...W.N.B.A. in the same way that Teresa Weatherspoon (T-Spoon) feeds Sophia Witherspoon (Serving Spoon) for the New York Liberty. Indeed, these are halcyon days for women's sports. Tennis star Martina Hingis has won more money so far this year than such athletes as Tiger Woods and Pete Sampras. The Women's Professional Fastpitch softball league, concentrated in the Southeast, has been pulling in fans and TV viewers in surprising numbers. Two new magazines (SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S Women/Sport and Conde Nast's Sports for Women) will soon be competing for readership...