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In much of the world, certainly including America, France has long been looked upon as a country that knows how to produce fine wines, elegant clothes and exotic perfumes but that remains a bit of a joke when it comes to technology: a builder of cars that look funny (Citroen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ambitions on A Grand Scale | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

They are called "canned hunts," but by any name they are slaughter, not sport, with no vestige of a fair contest between man and beast. In pursuit of a trophy to hang on the wall or a videotape of their exploits, well-to-do hunters in the U.S. are paying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shooting Leopards in a Barrel | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

In Texas, says federal fish and wildlife agent Jim Stinebaugh, canned hunts are quick and dirty, most of them the work of "fly-by-night promoters who find a cat at an exotic-animal auction and then put a deal together." Two hunting guides, Daniel Lee Moody and Ronald Terrell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shooting Leopards in a Barrel | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

Increasingly, breeders are raising exotic animals specifically for hunting. Investigations of canned hunts and wildlife-trafficking operations are under way in Texas and elsewhere, but weak and conflicting laws make officials' jobs harder. An animal may have federal protection as a member of an endangered species, for example, yet no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shooting Leopards in a Barrel | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

2. Visit old classmates. No doubt, many of your chums are charter members of HUBRIS, and will soon be working, going to school or "fellowshipping" in exotic and distant places. By timing your trips with precision, you can spend an entire year hopping from one buddy to another, never paying...

Author: By David J. Socolow, | Title: Yes, We Have No Life | 6/5/1991 | See Source »

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