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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before the University could retrieve the carcass, a couple from Essex allegedly cut out the whale's jaw with a chain saw and stole 29 teeth...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Wanted: 29 Stolen Whale Teeth | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

...carcass of the young, 40-foot male sperm whale was spotted by the U.S. Coast Guard near Isle of Shoals, N.H., about two and a half weeks ago, according to Petty Officer Mike J. Daponte of the U.S. Coast Guard...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Wanted: 29 Stolen Whale Teeth | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

...year-old gardener who became a cause celebre after he whacked a rat to death with a broom for eating his tomato plants. Ironically, Balun got noticed -- and risked a year in jail and $2,500 in fines -- after he called the Associated Humane Societies to get the carcass. The AHS promptly filed charges against him. The judge found a loophole in state law that allows slaughter if vermin damage crops or livestock. But it took a plea-in-verse from local prosecutor Christopher Howard to put things in perspective: "Because the killing of a rat by this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAT KILLER'S POETIC JUSTICE | 8/25/1994 | See Source »

From the minarets of Gaza City mosques last week, Hamas sheiks praised the "heroic" suicide bomber of Afula. Boys pelted Israeli military headquarters in Gaza City with stones, then waited for the inevitable rubber bullets. A donkey carcass lay rotting by the side of the road in Jabalia camp. Small boys dragged tires to construct a barricade, filling the air with the acrid smell of burning rubber. A few miles away, the police building stood empty, the morning's expectation of handshakes and smiles all but forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peace Postponed | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...fire took much of the house by surprise. It melted most of the garbage can and its contents, leaving just the can's carcass and about 20 fire-scorched cans of Bud Light...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Fire Strikes Eliot House | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

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