“Mako” is the Maori word for “shark” or “shark tooth”. And the shark in Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea”, that’s a mako. It is the fastest-swimming shark that we know, and has been clocked at speeds of over 40 miles/hour. The mako gets its own back sometimes though, as attacks on humans are not unknown. The shortfin mako shark can appear on restaurant menus, and as a result the species is dying out in some parts of the world. After ten months of blindness Winger recovered, and off she headed. Given so much time to think after the accident, she decided that if she did indeed recover she would leave her home in Ohio and move to California to take up acting. She was left partially paralyzed and blind, and was told that she would never see again. When Debra Winger was a young woman she was involved in a terrible car accident that resulted in a cerebral hemorrhage. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across
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