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...women, defending gold medalists and world champions, beat Norway 2-0, but the ease with which they dispatched the normally tough Norwegians certainly made them gold-medal favorites. The American men were favored to go home early, and yet they fought the Czech Republic (2-2) and Cameroon (1-1) to draws and have a good shot at advancing to the medal round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Splash In Sydney | 9/17/2000 | See Source »

...healing: poisons. Merck is marketing a blood thinner based on the venom of the deadly saw-scaled viper. A protein from another Asian pit viper is being studied because it appears to inhibit the spread of melanoma cells, and a compound called SNX-482 from the venom of the Cameroon red tarantula may lead to new treatments for neurological disorders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nature's Gifts: The Hidden Medicine Chest | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

...CROSS RIVER GORILLA HOME Nigeria, Cameroon POPULATION 150 to 200 --Found in the forested hills along the border between the two countries, it was recognized as a subspecies distinct from other West African gorillas only last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Row | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

...recent years, the world has become a brutally hard place to be a gorilla. Although there are still more than 130,000 gorillas in the Congo basin, they are being killed and crowded out at an alarming rate. By one estimate, 800 gorillas in Cameroon ended up as "bush meat" last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Urban Gorillas | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...trains. That's because the U.S. targeted for tariffs 17 European exports chosen to "gain the most leverage" over European protectionists. How? Mainly by targeting the British, French and Italians, who have pushed to restrict Latin bananas and to favor those grown in former European colonies, like Martinique and Cameroon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banana Wars | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

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