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...hard targets'' such as Iran, Iraq and North Korea, where the U.S. has no embassies in which to hide CIA operatives. In some countries, Time has learned, the CIA is even experimenting with setting up two stations. One would be under the traditional embassy cover to serve as a decoy, while another much more secretive station would handle the NOCs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPIES FOR THE NEW DISORDER | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

...Crimson attack comes down to one guy--Giardi. He'll have to run, pass and decoy against a team coached by a man who has seen the Multi-Flex 22 times. Yale Coach Carm Cozza has been around even longer than Harvard Coach Joe Restic--28 years...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Limited Options | 11/21/1992 | See Source »

...pipe before explaining why you are flunking his course, Hepburn decides to tend the fire in the second-floor drawing room of her Manhattan town house, for which she says (later, when she is speaking) she was offered $2 million. I look around at her watercolors, the antique duck decoy, some African artifacts, and memorize the pattern in the Oriental rug while she slowly removes the screen from the fireplace, chucks in a couple of corn husks, stokes the embers a bit here and there, and shoves the wood around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Katharine Hepburn: A Bad Case of HEPBURN | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

...told them that my mother-in-law was a Kuwaiti, that she was ill, and that I wanted to bring her out for medical treatment at 'home' in Qatar. There was nothing to say otherwise. I had nothing on me, and the truck was empty. I was the decoy, and no one could prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toward A New Kuwait | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...tail twitches and its head turns. It has antlers, a soft coat, innocent eyes -- and a heart of steel. Meet RoboDeer, the radio-controlled decoy buck. West Virginia's department of natural resources has sent the dummy deer into the bush just twice -- but that was enough to ensnare 11 illegal highway hunters. "We try to place it where an individual would be looking for a deer," says DNR Sergeant Kaven Ransom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting: The Buck Starts Here | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

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