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Shortly after the snake bust, Bill Tanner, the Park Service group's leader, got an ominous phone message at his Santa Fe headquarters. The caller wanted to assure him that if he sent another agent into the area, "you're gonna find him floating in the river." Tanner smiles. "That only means you're getting to these guys," he says. "You're doing your job." For poacher-hunting agents like Tanner, the big game is thick on the landscape...
...Bolton is cheerful and full of surprises. One minute she may be talking about the barbecued pigs' feet and rabbit cake she cooked for Humphreys ("She wouldn't take a dime for her work"); the next, she is pulling a ringing cellular phone from her handbag and telling the caller she is in a meeting. Recently she told her current employer that she needed a few weeks off for personal business. The boss doesn't know that she is a published writer and has to go off on a pseudonymous national publicity tour. "Can you believe it?" asks a laughing...
WASHINGTON -- Presidential staff members are fretting over a new Caller ID system installed on many of the phones in the White House, including Al Gore's and chief of staff Mack McLarty's. The system displays an incoming caller's number on a screen; some staffers are worried that the numbers could be tracked, perhaps even logged somewhere -- or used to investigate leaks. Says a congressional investigator of his recent contacts with the White House: "People say, 'Don't phone...
...streets of New York City -- the plague spreads, causing death, panic, chaos. Practically all that remains of civilization is talk-radio etiquette. A radio host (Kathy Bates), enraged about the "superflu" cover-up, takes calls from panicked listeners who tell of dying babies and mass body burnings. Says one caller: "First of all ((cough)), I just want to tell you that I love your show...
Upon calling to inquire about purchasing a Macintosh laptop computer, the caller was told the prices of three different laptop models: the Powerbook 165, the Powerbook 180 and the Powerbook 180c, each with different hard drive configurations. Each of those computers was in-stock and would be immediately available, the caller was told...