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...Thais was the death knell for God's Army. The Thai public demanded retribution. A combined force of soldiers, police and border-patrol units cut off the rebels' supply routes to Thailand, hoping to starve them out. Though the guerrillas managed to slip through the net, hunting deer and monkeys for food, the mood among them had changed. A Burmese army unit was less than three miles away, suggesting that the government in Rangoon might be planning to hit the Karen hard. The noose was tightening. The rebels did not want to be killed by the Burmese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Little Lords Of The Jungle | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

...prion disorder called chronic wasting disease that causes severe weight loss and listlessness. When contaminated tissue was injected into the brains of cows, they too developed the disease (although cows that merely ate elk meat did not). Last week advisers to the FDA took up the question of whether deer, closely related to elk, might pose a danger to venison eaters. "We have to be vigilant," says Linda Detwiler, coordinator of BSE surveillance for the USDA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can It Happen Here? | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

This is confusing. I thought we had agreed that George W. Bush is an imbecile. Strategerie, Grecians, and all that. Deer in the headlights. President Duh. Alfred W. Neuman. A moron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presidential Transformations — and Regressions | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

...would also like to mention rocker, marksman and conservative activist Ted Nugent, who, in his autobiography "God, Guns and Rock 'n' Roll" refers to himself as "Rosa Parks with a loud guitar." That's so inaccurate; everyone knows he's more like Mary Matalin with a fancy deer rifle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You, Sir, Are No Rosa Parks | 1/26/2001 | See Source »

Using science to save vanishing species is becoming a global pursuit. Robert Mauget and colleagues at France's National Museum of Natural History, which includes four zoo parks, recently became the first to produce deer embryos in vitro. The technique--incorporating frozen semen and oocytes, or developing egg cells--is expected to be applied later this year to rare and endangered deer species, with more common types acting as surrogate mothers. The French are also talking with colleagues in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan about how they may help rebuild populations of Bactrian (Bukharian) deer in Central Asia. "Basically, we're hoping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Noah's New Ark | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

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