At 3:28 PM -0400 9/4/01, Beth Benoit wrote:
>TIPSters,
>With the attack and subsequent death of yet another child in a shark attack,
>the tongue-in-cheek joking on TIPS about attracting/repelling sharks makes
>me uncomfortable. Think we can tone it down?
Or maybe deal with real problems.
What is the relative risk of dying in a traffic accident on the way to the
beach vs. being bitten by a shark?
A couple of orders of magnitude, I believe.
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