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They’ve been pretty special. If only because two wild-card teams finally got to the Series, they’ve been special. But there’s no shortage of good stories, or compelling angles...
...stag films from 1915 projected on a wall, videos of '70s and '80s porn stars - are recontextualized into some strange National Geographic special. Even the sober-looking museum guards aren't impressed. "It's calmer here," says Jasmine Pallet, 22, comparing MoSex with her previous workplace. "Yankee Stadium is wild...
...genetic secrets hidden in those codes could help drug companies design more effective treatments, better repellents and maybe even a vaccine. The information could also be used, some scientists suggest, to breed genetically modified mosquitoes that are resistant to the malaria parasite. Release these mutant bugs in the wild, the thinking goes, and they will occupy the same ecological niche as wild mosquitoes, competing for food and, with any luck, eventually displacing them...
Next time the budget meetings and staff cuts and underwater options make you desperate to get far, far away, imagine this. You are standing on the sandbar of a wild river, casting a gaudy pink-and-purple Showgirl streamer at coho salmon the size of fence posts holding in a pool downstream. There's not another human within 100 square miles. The helicopter that dropped you off will return in four hours as the sun slips behind the mountains. By then you will have hooked at least 20 shining silver coho weighing from 8 lbs. to 15 lbs. You will...
...miles northwest of Vancouver, deep in the Canadian province of British Columbia, where heli-fishing in the temperate coastal rain forest represents angling at its most spectacular. With some of the world's biggest runs of migratory wild salmon and steelhead, along with abundant rainbow and cutthroat trout, the inlets and islands south of the great Skeena River offer the kind of fishing our grandfathers liked to reminisce about. Until recently many of the smaller rivers had not been fished at all. There are no roads along the coast, and the rivers have too many rapids for boats to make...