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...subject, Palmer turned to Typhoeus typhoeus, commonly known as the minotaur beetle. Barely larger than a pebble, this long, shiny black bug is found throughout sandy areas of Europe, where it feeds mainly on rabbit, sheep or deer droppings. It is named for its three distinct horns-two large ones separated by a smaller one-that project threateningly from the male of the species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Beetle Battles | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...peasant" in the rigors of owning and running his own farm. Perrin recalls the winter morning he awoke to find the temperature outside-26°F., his house at 37° and falling, his oil tank empty. He recounts his early, inept attempts to fence off land from deer, other predators and the forest-making impulse that still thrives in the stony New England soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cold Pastoral | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

Speakers included Sen. Allen Cranston (D-Cal.), Leman Brightman, one of the originators of the "Longest Walk," and Philip Deer, a leader of the Muscoke tribe in California...

Author: By Patricia A. Wathen, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Indians Stage March on Capitol Hill | 7/18/1978 | See Source »

...shell holes. But in 25 years those scars have begun to heal. Abandoned rice terraces have turned into marshes, which are a favorite feeding ground for waterfowl. Old tank traps overgrown with weeds serve as cover for rabbits. Untamed thickets provide a refuge for herds of Asian river deer, each a small (3 ft. high) fanged version of its North American cousin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Peaceful Coexistence in Korea | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...netted a $22,000 fee; that reflected, he said, 440 hours of work, equivalent to 3% months of full-time work. He continued to receive his full $26,100 annual district attorney's salary, of course, which helped pay for a $38,000 private airplane and a private deer-hunting lodge. Sabo, incidentally, once caught Cooksey using jail inmates to paint his house, but nothing came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Keystone Kops | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

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