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...swelling of Ling-Ling's breasts as she gets ready to nurse. Thus far only the Chinese have successfully bred a panda by artificial means. But such human intervention is becoming increasingly prudent. In the past five years, earthquakes and the natural disappearance of their major food, the arrow bamboo, have killed at least a tenth of China's giant pandas. Today only about 1,000 remain in the wild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pandaring | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

...chosen you from among all people to help us," chanted a chorus of women over and over and over again in the Lingala dialect. A few feet away, tribesmen with arrow-pierced cheeks and clad in striped costumes performed a zebra dance. Others waved shining spears in greeting. Women of the Ekonda tribe, their breasts modestly covered for the occasion, swayed and sang to the rhythm of drums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Pope to Africa: Mvidi Mukulu | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

...period at a 6-1 deficit, B.C. quickly bit the dust for good when the offense poured in four more goals in the next period with only one from the quickly fading Eagles. In the barrage, Meagher whipped through another big one when Stormin' Norm Forbush fed him an arrow-straight pass to pick up another of his game-high four assists...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Laxmen Stun B.C. | 4/2/1980 | See Source »

Corrigan, despite her illness, played "better than I usually do," defeating Hilary Arrow 3-0, losing only points in the process...

Author: By Ari M. Lieman, | Title: Racquetwomen Top Penn, 6-1 | 2/15/1980 | See Source »

...hero this time is Adam Munro, a British spy working under cover in his nation's embassy in Moscow. Pretty straight arrow this Munro, all the right schools, the right background, except for a short, passionate fling with a Russian beauty during the Berlin crisis. But she "slipped back into the East through the last uncompleted section in the Wall, sad and lonely and heartbroken--and very, very, beautiful." Never to be seen again. Suuuuure...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Fact Follows Fiction | 1/10/1980 | See Source »

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