Discovery Channel Magazine（ディスカバリーチャンネルマガジン） 2008年12月15日発売号

Shark Rodeo

A team of Australian researchers is doing its bit to protect sharks by lassoing and tagging them - by hand!

・Eye on the Sky
High in the Chilean Andes, scientists are taking advantage of the clearest skies on earth and new image
combination techniques to build the most powerful telescopes ever.

・Living with Hidden Death
Laos was subjected to Vietnam War air raids that left behind millions of unexploded bombs.
Brave teams are slowly clearing the deadly legacy, but fatalities still occur, driven in part by poverty and necessity.

・Storm Surfers
Enormous storm-driven waves break with incredible fury on Dangerous Banks, a remote sandbank off northwestern Tasmania.
Three extreme surfers decide to take them on.

・Screen Screams
The Manila Film Center was supposed to be Imelda Marcos''s greatest artistic triumph. As a result of a freak accident
during construction, it turned into a nightmare for both builders and visitors.

・A Pachyderm Puzzle
In a patch of jungle in northern Borneo, pygmy elephants are happily grazing. Extinct in their native Java, the
mystery is how they got to Borneo and survived there.

・Master of Architecture
Andrea Palladio, an architect from Padua, Italy took a trip to Rome in 1541 and was inspired by what he saw.
So inspired, he created classic buildings that have influenced generations of architects.

・His Majesty the Sphinx
More than 4,500 years old, and probably the most recognisable statue in the world, the Sphinx has an incredible
history of abandonment - only to be resurrected time and again.

・Gone Fishing
Tagging reclusive sharks in the frozen wilds of Canada sounds like a clean job for Mike Rowe.
But the dirt still tracks him down.

・Great, Green and Grassy
It''s just a really big kind of grass, but bamboo offers food, shelter, beauty and a livelihood to millions.

・What''s This (Issue Five)
Spiders aren''t as solitary as people think. There are more than 15 social species that spin communal webs.
The photo shows the intricate work of one such species - the Anelosimus eximius. Commonly found in South America,
these spiders construct huge hammock-shaped webs often exceeding 100 cubic metres in volume.

Cyclone Nargis
Although the floodwaters have retreated, it''s important we don''t forget the survivors of Cyclone Nargis now
that the story isn''t attracting so many headlines. Disease, hunger, grief and depression will afflict the
people of the Irrawaddy Delta and beyond for months and maybe years to come.

If you want to help, please visit the following links where updates on the situation are posted and where
online donations can be made:

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Foundation for the People of Burma

International Medical Corps

Save the Children