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Safari for Windows was THE bombshell of Steve Jobs' keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco earlier this week. While Jobs explained the move by talking about his desire to increase Safari's share of Web browsers, there must be more to it than that. As most everyone knows, Web browsers are given away free. Apple has invested some of its limited resources to create a Windows-compatible browser that will generate exactly $0 in revenue and will serve to annoy the restless, competitive giant that is Microsoft.

SOLOMONS -- Tommy Zinn peers into the glistening Patuxent River, watching his line of chicken necks go by. A crab bites one and Zinn quickly scoops it up in his dip net, dropping it onto a cull bin where about a dozen other blue and red clawed crabs skitter about. It's not great, not by a long shot. But with Memorial Day being just about the biggest weekend for selling and eating crabs, Zinn tries anyway. A days' work gets him just one basket of crabs, which he'll sell for about $100. Minus his fuel and bait costs, Zinn will net about $70. While thousands of families are sitting down with a few cold longnecks and a plate of steamers on a holiday weekend, Maryland's crabbers are feeling pinched.

The Man Who Is To Blame is still watching. And cheering. Let's get that out of the way right now. He'll tune in tomorrow night like everyone else - this blessed bunch that thinks purple dye is a perfectly normal hair-care product - to see whether the Ravens can become the first NFL team to clinch a division title this season. If that happens, we'll see some momentum starting to propel two very different ideas. The first: Another dominant showing will firmly establish the Ravens' place alongside the Colts as a Super Bowl favorite heading into the final month of the season.

Two Jessup men have been charged with baiting black bears - with cookies and cake- while hunting this week on private property in Garrett County, Maryland Natural Resources Police said yesterday. Kendall T. Hayden, 51, and Frederick C. Wieland Jr., 42, were issued citations about 10:30 a.m. Monday in Oakland for hunting black bears with bait after police received an anonymous tip from a concerned citizen, Sgt. Ken Turner of the Natural Resources Police said in a news release. When officers arrived in the area off Cranesville Road near the Youghiogheny Mountain Resort, they observed Hayden hunting from a tree stand over a baited area covered in cookies and cakes, the release said.

Pointing to the early success of two new series - CBS' Jericho and NBC's Heroes - network and cable executives say they have in their sights what is considered the most elusive TV audience segment: Young adult males. Armed this fall with a technological arsenal that includes On Demand downloads and online video streams, television executives say for the first time they are reaching young men between 18 and 34 years of age, the demographic group considered hardest to reach and most desired by TV advertisers.

Get ready, one's coming," shouted skipper Anthony Melley. In seconds the shark would be feet, or even inches, from the cage in which we were waiting in the cold water. When Melley gave the call, we would hold our breaths, duck under and come face to face with a great white. I was on Shark Fever, a 32-foot catamaran that is part of a growing and controversial industry in South Africa called cage diving. Twelve companies take tourists out for memorable, morning-long encounters with these feared, yet poorly understood, denizens of the deep.

Baseball Mets@ Nationals Where -- RFK Stadium, Washington When -- Tonight and tomorrow 7:05 p.m.; Sun. 1:05 What for -- First and worst in the NL East; Frank Robinson's likely farewell as Nationals manager. Online -- nationals.mlb.com Running Catonsville Fall Into Fitness 5K Where -- Matthew's 1600, 1600 Frederick Road, Catonsville When -- Tomorrow 7 a.m. registration; 8 a.m. start What for -- Proceeds go to the St. Agnes Foundation, the St. Agnes Lung Cancer Center and the Strong Kids!

Outreach Center lists activities Baltimore Washington Medical Center will offer the following activities at its Arundel Mills Outreach Center between Dave and Buster's and entrance No. 4: Tomorrow, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., blood pressure and lung-capacity screenings. Friday, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., computerized back and neck screenings. Tuesday, 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., blood pressure screenings. Sept. 28, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., foot screenings. Information: 410-787-4367. Hospital offers Sept. activities Baltimore Washington Medical Center will offer the following activities this month: Today, 4 p.m., Joint School.

As soon as Washington Nationals general manager Jim Bowden made the announcement late at night during the final full evening of baseball's December meetings in Dallas, the snickers started. There's Trader Jim making a splash for the purpose of making a splash. The snickers grew into full-blown laughter a few days later when Alfonso Soriano, the superstar Bowden had just traded three players for, said he didn't want to move from second base to the outfield. It was a legitimate problem because the Nationals already had an established second baseman in Jose Vidro, whose hefty contract made him an unlikely trade chip and whose beaten knees made it impossible for him to play anywhere else.

A week before the non-waiver trade deadline, it is looking more likely that the Orioles will not make any deals that will heavily impact the 2006 roster. Team executives continue to work the phones, hopeful of making significant additions that will buoy the team for the rest of the season and in the future. But with the club maintaining it has yet to be overwhelmed with an offer for star shortstop Miguel Tejada and that it is looking to build around - not trade - its young pitching, the Orioles are short on valuable trade chips.