SHARK ATTACK.

SHARK ATTACK. Dr. Evil:

You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads! Now evidently my cycloptic colleague informs me that that cannot be done. Ah, would you remind me what I pay you people for, honestly? Throw me a bone here!

Earlier this year, the Navy began to do research on the possibility of using sharks as spies. Progress, apparently, has been made, and much of the project has been classified.

Back in the spring, I figured this research was in its earliest, most basic stages -- getting a sense of what makes a shark tick. Not so. Boston University professor Jelle Atema can actually "steer a shark" -- either through "electrical stimulation of the brain" or by delivering "little odor pulses" of "squid juice" to the predator's nose.

Apparently, a video is available. The status of the head-mounted lasers is, as of yet, unknown.

--Robert Farley