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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...where animals do the unnatural (i.e., act like humans) and often trump mankind along the way. A female moose, in a slip and curlers, hands the phone to her husband, sitting in his easy chair. "It's the call of the wild," she says. As a woman crouches to feed nuts to two squirrels, one of the furry creatures says to his companion, "I can't stand it . . . They're so cute when they sit like that." Larson's humans fare no better when . dealing with their own kind. As two scholarly explorers approach a tribal hut, the occupants race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: All Creatures Weird and Funny | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...book, entitled "The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History," Gould puts together a series of essays ranging from "flamingos that feed upside down" to "the extinction from baseball of the .400 hitter...

Author: By Joseph C. Tedeschi, | Title: Gould Turns to Sportswriting | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

...Paper Feed...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Tough Choices: Finding the Perfect Printer | 11/19/1986 | See Source »

Another important feature to consider is the method by which the paper is fed into the computer. The two basic types of paper feed are friction and tractor...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Tough Choices: Finding the Perfect Printer | 11/19/1986 | See Source »

...Friction feed works like a typewriter, allowing the user to print one page at a time. This is especially useful when printing on special paper, such as personal stationary. Tractor feed mechanisms feed in continuous, fan-fold paper, through a set of wheels which grip the holes on either side of the paper...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Tough Choices: Finding the Perfect Printer | 11/19/1986 | See Source »

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