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    By Sally Deneen

    | 7:45AM 9/02/2010
    Step away from that tuna can. Its "dolphin safe" label produces warm feelings, but don't mistake it for "turtle safe" or "ocean safe." And it's certainly not "tuna safe." Accidental entanglements of sharks, sea turtles, juvenile tuna and other marine creatures take their own ecological toll --...

    By Martha C. White

    | 11:30AM 3/02/2010
    Could the lousy economy be keeping you from being mauled by a Great White? According to one researcher, the answer is yes. The University of Florida in Gainesville keeps an International Shark Attack File that tracks the number of times sharks sink their teeth into humans. The number of shark...

    By Jason Cochran

    | 4:00PM 10/06/2009
    Today, we wrap up our four-part audience with the Sharks of ABC's Shark Tank, which airs tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern. When WalletPop's Jason Cochran dares to ask the Sharks if they secretly collude to trick entrepreneurs into devaluing their own businesses, Barbara has some pointed words about it....

    By Jason Cochran

    | 4:00PM 10/02/2009
    Can't get enough of ABC's new series Shark Tank? Then dive deeper. WalletPop's Editor-at-Large, Jason Cochran, dared to risk life and limb to hang with the Sharks. Instead of seeking an audience with the self-made multimillionaires to beg them for money, as budding businessmen do every Tuesday...

    By Jason Cochran

    | 12:30PM 10/01/2009
    Can't get enough of ABC's new series Shark Tank? Then dive deeper. WalletPop's Editor-at-Large, Jason Cochran, dared to risk life and limb to hang with the Sharks. Instead of seeking an audience with the self-made multimillionaires to beg them for money, as budding businessmen do every Tuesday...

    By Jason Cochran

    | 1:00AM 9/14/2009
    Coming later today in our ongoing AfterShark interview series, we'll talk to Jonathan Miller, the whiz who dazzled the Sharks with his cunning negotiating skills. Somehow, this wily 29-year-old managed to talk Kevin Harrington out of wresting his company from him to giving an offer that not only...

    By Carol Vinzant

    | 5:00PM 2/23/2009
    The number of humans bit by sharks declined in 2008 and the leading shark attack researcher blames the recession. George Burgess, director of the International Shark Attack File, says sharks bit 59 people around the world in 2008, down from 71 the year before. Sharks bit fewer people not because...