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...their customary departure point and find open water. Unable to move forward, the bears turn left and continue walking right into town, arriving emaciated and hungry. To reduce unscheduled encounters between townspeople and the carnivores, natural-resource officer Wade Roberts and his deputies tranquilize the bears with a dart gun, temporarily house them in a concrete-and-steel bear "jail" and move them 10 miles north. In years with a late freeze--most years since the late 1970s--the number of bears captured in or near town sometimes doubles, to more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Meltdown | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

Joshua Levin '02 used a neon orange dart gun to hold a stranger outside his Pforzheimer suite at gunpoint Tuesday morning, thinking the encounter was part of the House's springtime "Gotcha" game...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Toy Gun Scares Off Suspected Burglar | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

...Levin left the bathroom, he said a friend warned him that the loitering man might be waiting to "kill" him as part of the "Gotcha" game--in which House residents attempt to "kill" other players by shooting them with plastic dart guns...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Toy Gun Scares Off Suspected Burglar | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

Levin said he then sneaked down the hallway and surprised the robber with his dart...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Toy Gun Scares Off Suspected Burglar | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

Dream about the future, and you dream in buildings. In the places where you first learn to think about tomorrow--in H.G. Wells, at the World's Fair, in The Jetsons--tomorrow is first of all a skyline fresh out of the cellophane. Personal whirly copters dart among glinting steel towers, everything looks like the Seattle Space Needle, and nothing is crummy or made out of wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Our Skyline Look Like? | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

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