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...hope to de-mythologize sharks, to erase their images as rogue man-eaters like the great white shark that figures in Jaws, the Peter Benchley novel turned Steven Spielberg movie classic. Benchley, who says he is now "a full-time ocean conservationist," told TIME last week, "I couldn't write Jaws today." After 25 years of research, the demonization of sharks doesn't hold, he says. "It used to be believed that great white sharks did target humans; now we know that except in the rarest of instances, great white shark attacks are mistakes." Dr. Robert Lea, a marine biologist...
...reading 'The Wide Net' with it hidden behind my English grammar book. I was supposed to be diagramming sentences, but Miss Welty had my mind millions of miles away. I remember it so well because it was the first time in my life that I realized a person could write about people who talked like me, and that realization changed my life...
...Initially Britain was there to evacuate its own nationals. Since then, though, some 600 soldiers have stayed on to train Sierra Leone's army. It's a huge challenge. "Some are bright; some can't read or write, some can't speak English," says Major Tim Radford, head of the senior leadership cadre at Benguema. "It's a mixed bag really...
...true softy on marriage: even after talking at length with lawyers about postnups, I still want to believe that a couple can share their assets and have faith in a married future, financial complications and all. Couples should fully disclose their assets and debts, discuss and even write down their goals, but then they should stick the piece of paper in a drawer and concentrate on their lives. Without lawyers...
...Moomins, delighted postwar readers and whose books were translated into 35 languages; in Helsinki. She got the original idea during the Nazi rise to power; seeing a quote from Immanuel Kant on a wall, she scribbled cant! and drew an ugly troll next to it. She wanted to write fairy tales but felt princesses were inappropriate to such bleak times. The Guardian called her Moomins "among the greatest creations of children's literature...