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...tuna fleet last year were taken by "setting on porpoise," the practice of dropping nets where dolphins frolic on the surface. As a result, thousands of dolphins are swept into tuna nets each year. Many of them become entangled beneath the surface and, since they are air breathers, drown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A DEADLY ROUNDUP AT SEA | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

...making machines and movies, but what they do best is gettin' free. Of course freedom gits folks into a mess of trouble too, 'cause when everybody's free, they're free to fall on their faces, and if no one cares to pick 'em up, they're free to drown. I know that some important folks say different, but if you ask me there ain't no excuse fer a land rich as this to be hearing hungry babies cry. Some people are free to poison the rivers too, which gits to me and Jim, or to let the schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Huck and Miss Liberty | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...sound effects will undoubtedly grow. "There are connoisseurs, and there are those who are just curious," says Joe Berini, chief engineer for KRON-TV in San Francisco, which went stereo last May. "Soon there will be people who just want to keep up with the Joneses." If only to drown out the noise coming from next door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Breaking the Sound Barrier | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...fair share of renovations? One week the students could commandeer a shuttle bus; the next week Hilles; and finally, during reading period, a coordinated attack on the Quadrangle kitchens. Amid the shattering plastic and shrieks of Quaddish fervor, two hisses of rustling paper will rise to a crescendo and drown out the actual event...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: A Long and Winding Road | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...presents a new character. An afflicted 15-year-old girl becomes involved with a 27-year-old man of ambiguous sexuality; an older woman, teetering on the edge of a breakdown, decides to jog instead of swim because "not only is running not cold, but I won't drown if I should stop suddenly"; another woman, traveling in Latin America, is dazzled by the profusion of rich colors but daydreams about the frail hands of her dying mother: "I traced with my finger the huge, adult bones, the fascinating veins that crossed it like mysterious rivers; I fitted my attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Apr. 14, 1986 | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

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