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Word: ares (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today Braden is comfortably ensconced with his wife Melody and his dog Mousse in a French country-style house in Coto de Caza, a four-minute walk from the college. He owns a piece of another Vic Braden Tennis College, in St. George, Utah, and has an income well into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching Tennis to Toads Vic Braden, Coach Extraordinaire, Uses Humor and Physics to Show Nonstars | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

Tsavo, the country's largest wildlife reserve, was once the grandest elephant sanctuary in Kenya. Now it is a case study of what has gone wrong -- and how the elephant may yet be saved. Tsavo stretches over 8,000 sq. mi., an area the size of Israel. In the mid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Battle in the Bush | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

Years ago, Wakamba tribesmen poached in Tsavo, using arrows tipped with poison. Now Somali gangs, including many former soldiers, spray whole families of elephants with automatic-weapon fire. Not all Tsavo's poachers have been outsiders to the park. Some who are paid to protect the elephants -- wardens and rangers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Battle in the Bush | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

Now Kenya is striking back. In his breast pocket, Woodley has an envelope stuffed with 30,000 Kenyan shillings ($1,428) -- money for informants. The antipoaching units are exchanging their World War I bolt-action rifles for automatic assault weapons. Within the past year the APUs have killed 18 poachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Battle in the Bush | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

, Residents of the Edgewood Independent school district, a poor, largely Hispanic area in west San Antonio, are willing to pay for good schools. Property taxes are high -- almost $1 per $100 of assessed valuation. But because the district encompasses part of a tax-exempt Air Force base and lacks tony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Big Shift in School Finance | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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