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...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 »

...project seeks to demonstrate that the missing birds could have sunk to the ocean bottom, floated out to sea, or washed up on deserted shores. In separate studies, meanwhile, the state of Alaska killed more than 200 ducks and scores of mammals, including deer, otter, mink and seals, to analyze long-term contamination effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killing Fields | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

...musty chill of the Dordogne, 30 ft. below ground, giant bulls, painted in red and black, gallop across undulating walls. Nearby, a cavalcade of horses, ibex, tiny deer and cave lions dances along the curves of rough limestone. Are these soaring images sacred or profane? A large bespectacled woman closes her eyes and sighs in wonder. She imagines a time, perhaps 20,000 years ago, when rituals were performed in this same hidden cave in the flickering light of animal-fat lamps. Slowly, tears stream down her cheeks. "It's like a church," she whispers. "You feel you can understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Queen of The Ice Age Romance | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...Peaks. The rambunctious road movie Wild at Heart, winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and now in theatrical release. Four TV commercials for Obsession perfume. A 50-minute video, Industrial Symphony No. 1, featuring a dwarf, prom teens, a floating topless lady, a skinned deer and ethereal warbler Julee Cruise singing from a car trunk; it's Lynch's most brazenly avant-garde work. If that's not enough, how about a weekly David Lynch comic strip called The Angriest Dog in the $ World? Or a book of his own photographs? Or a flurry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Lynch: Czar of Bizarre | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

Bill Mathers, not at all a typical resident of the Big Open region, took it all in, said little, bought more land, increased his commercial herd to 3,000 and granted hunting rights on his holdings. Easterners in big mobile homes arrive each year and stalk elk and deer that glide over the hilltops like sandy clouds. The hunters get state approval for a few days, bag a trophy, then rumble back home feeling as if they have been with Lewis and Clark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugh Sidey's America: Where the Buffalo Roamed | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

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