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It was in the abstracted mode that I trailed a Tony Rizzo "Trophy Tail" - consisting of "pulsating spinner, breathing marabou, and life-like squid tail," altogether a hideously succulent mouthful of black rubber glinting here and there with sequins and harboring a cluster of deadly and barely noticeable hooks - across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reeling in the Big Ones on Elephant Lake | 8/23/2001 | See Source »

For centuries, China has mined the faraway continent for its treasures. Zheng He himself loaded his ships with ambergris, elephant tusk and rhino horn. Despite Kenya's shoot-to-kill order for wildlife poachers, much of the ivory and rhino horn leaves Africa by air from its capital, Nairobi, or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad Medicine | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

The man behind the Dallas arena and Victory cleanup is Ross Perot Jr., 42, CEO of Hillwood Development Co. and son of the former presidential hopeful. Perot rammed the project through a fractious Dallas political scene, getting the EPA and Texas regulators onboard even before taxpayers in 1998 approved (by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Full-Court Cleanup | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

Certainly that is what many parents are starting to do. "I had one over-the-top birthday party for my child, and I'll never do it again," says Carrie Fisher, daughter of Hollywood star Debbie Reynolds and now the mother of nine-year-old Billie. "She got an elephant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents and Children: Who's In Charge Here? | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

In 1950 the Joe Morris band provided a couple of entertaining exceptions: "The Applejack" had the saxes booming out thunderous elephant farts, and "Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere" featured a piercing vocal by Little Laurie Tate that suggested Butterfly McQueen attempting a soul tune while having her hand hammered. But the Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahmet?s Atlantic: Baby, That Is Rock and Roll | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

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