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...give the two workers a change to rescue their integrity, the inspectors sent along a "decoy" package of KitKat candybars. An impartial observer might question the decorum of this move, reminiscent of recent Washington scams involving FBI agents dressed as Arab sheiks offering U.S. Congressmen large sums of money for their votes on crucial issues. The strategy also seems doubtful--Snickers or perhaps peanut M&Ms would seem like better choices. But despite these drawbacks, the scam succeeded. Wilson and Ferguson could not resist the urge familiar to every late-night paper writer. They decimated the package of KitKats...

Author: By David M. Rosenfeld, | Title: The Cookie Jar | 3/25/1983 | See Source »

Defense against such weapons is, as the sinking of the Sheffield and General Belgrano attest, not easy. Modern torpedoes like the Tigerfish can be avoided only by throwing out decoys like big air bubbles, using acoustic countermeasures like sonar jamming or, better yet, sinking the attacking submarine. But deep-diving nuclear attack submarines and the noiseless Tigerfish are hard to detect until it is too late. Similarly, the Sea Skua and Exocet antiship missiles are almost impossible to evade. A would-be victim can use electronic countermeasures like radar jamming to confuse the attacking missile's guidance system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Falklands: Battle of the Microchips | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

...Folk Singer Skip Morrow, 29, spoofs livelier kitties. The Second Official I Hate Cats Book employs a perplexed, Woody Allen-style feline as a polo ball, a terrified moose-hunting decoy and a freaked-out monastery candle snuffer. Morrow, who lives in southern Vermont with his two cats, Nina and Lucy, does not hate cats but rather what he feels people have made of them. Human avarice, not atrocity, is the root of the problem. Says Morrow: "There's so much schmaltz from the pet industry. You see it on TV and in stores. My work is a comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Catty Cartoonists | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...best thing that can be said about Nighthawks is that it's short. Imagine Billy Dee Williams as Sergeant Fox and Sylvester Stallone as Sergeant DaSilva roaming the streets of the Bronx and combing Central Park, as decoy cops in a simpleminded parody of The Supercops and Serpico. We are to believe that the greatest service a policeman can do to stifle crime must be done while he wears a dress. As this dashing duo heroically traipses past Third Avenue, the scene shifts to London, where Wulfgar (Rutger Hauer). The Villian, has just blown up a department store. "There...

Author: By Laura K. Jereski, | Title: Nightmares | 4/15/1981 | See Source »

...come home." She quit work and would not even go shopping unless Al was home. He gave up his annual hunting trips. They put deadbolt locks on all the outside doors, wired a back-room window with a siren, and even bought a third car to park as a decoy in the driveway if they could not avoid being gone at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Curse of Violent Crime | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

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