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| | CNN.com - Year of shark 'hype,' says expert - September 4, 2001 |
 | | MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Despite two fatal shark attacks this week and huge media coverage of almost every shark attack this summer, experts say such assaults by the cartilaginous fish are down in numbers this year. |
 | | "This is the summer of the shark hype, not the summer of the shark," Sam Gruber, a marine biologist at the University of Miami, told CNN. |
 | | Gruber, considered one of top experts on sharks, said the real feeding frenzy has been by the media, not the sharks. |
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