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...most of which have shallow roots. Conservationists are now lobbying for stricter state and federal laws to stop poachers, who are lured by substantial profits. Saguaros, which can take more than 100 years to grow to 6 ft., routinely sell for $10 per ft. in height plus $50 an arm -- and can fetch ten times that amount in Europe and Japan. For instance, a rare 19-ft. crested saguaro lifted from Quartzsite, Ariz., turned up in a Las Vegas nursery with a $15,000 price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Cactus Snatchers | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

Yale challenged early in the second half, when Eli Captain Dave Kulik headed a shot off the crossbar. Junior midfielder Paul Morsink sent a cross pass from the left corner to Kulik, who played the game with a cast on his right arm...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Eli Tie Gives Booters Ivy Title | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...Harvard puts its graduate student population in a no-win situation. While most would like nothing more than to plow ahead with the dissertation, they instead wind up--thanks to that angry landlord, the growling belly, and rising loan debts--leading two sections and a sophomore tutorial, grading two arm-fulls of midterms, and receiving midnight phone calls from confused and worried students. Why not the best...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: Why Not the Best? | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...appears to have faded on the West Coast but is all the rage in southern Illinois and is spreading to eastern Missouri. A recent rash of seemingly random events has left one person dead and one wounded. Outside Collinsville, Ill., shotgun fire struck a man in the chest and arm as he drove down Interstate 55. Fifteen minutes later and ten miles away, another driver was shot in the head and killed. Across the state line in St. Louis County, Mo., last week, two people reported being fired upon by other drivers. In separate cases, Illinois police arrested several people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illinois: Homicide on The Highway | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...conscious Americans to take precise readings on their own. This spring Futrex, in Gaithersburg, Md., plans to introduce a hand-held computerized analyzer. Borrowing technology developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to determine the nutritional content of meat and grain, the device beams near infrared light on the arm. As the light passes through the flesh, fat absorbs specific wavelengths; light emitted through the skin is then picked up by a detector. The computer translates the information into percent body fat. Cost of the device: around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Off The Scales and into the Tub | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

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