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...course, making good on that guarantee requires bending the prey-and-predator rules. Animals at some preserves are so accustomed to humans that they wander into range at the sound of a rattling feed bucket. Elsewhere they're confined to small patches of woods where they can't elude hunters for long. At others they may never even make it out of their cages before being shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting Made Easy | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

With the Crimson up by two, Gellert hit one of two free throws to give Harvard a three-point lead. After a Chris Wiedemann bucket pulled Columbia within one, junior gaurd Pat Harvey came through with two clutch free throws to seal the victory...

Author: By Samuel C. Roddenberry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Hoops Sweeps Lions, Big Red | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...like the Princeton and Yale games, Harvard saw its halftime lead evaporate quickly. Senior guard Treg Duerksen nailed a three-pointer and added another bucket to key a 12-2 Columbia run over the first 7:23 of the second half to pull Columbia within...

Author: By Samuel C. Roddenberry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Hoops Sweeps Lions, Big Red | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...with a simple case taking about 70 hours to investigate and more complex ones taking three times as long. Each of the nine specialists solves 30 to 40 cases a year, according to team member Ralph Richards. "We're making some headway, but it's a drop in the bucket," he says. "The chances of getting caught are much less than for the guy who steals your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Identity Thieves | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...Bush has long since stopped worrying about the reborn deficits that his tax cuts, the war on terror and the business cycle will be visiting upon America for the next several years - another $75 or $100 billion is a drop in the red-ink bucket. But he is becoming very conscious (again) that his father's wildly popular war on Saddam didn't save him from the 1991 recession, and that the longer the 2001 recession lasts - and the longer George W. is seen to be gazing overseas while the home front burns - the fainter voters' memories will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's the Stimulus Package, Stupid | 12/5/2001 | See Source »

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