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Since the coypu's natural predators (alligators, crocodiles and certain types of foxes and eagles) are all back in South America, the animal has flourished in East Anglia's bogs and fens. Commercial trappers are not interested in its fur: the nutria vogue in Britain declined some years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nutria Nuisance | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

As Ike walked through the exhibits examining national products, eager representatives flooded him with gifts: a hippopotamus-skin shield decorated with gold and silver (Ethiopia), a coffee table (Liberia), embroidered linen (Yugoslavia), cloisonne vase (Japan), Bible (Israel), a boxed edition of Don Quixote printed on and bound in cork (Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Reflections of a Spirit | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

* A haphazard form of hockey that was played on the English fens after late fall rains had frozen into thin sheets of ice.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Home-Town Hockey | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

Galatz, Rumania sits at the top of the Danube delta surrounded by fens teeming with mosquitoes, waterfowl and half-wild swine, its docks crowded with fat tankers and chunky grain boats. And Galatz was the scene last week of one of the most remarkable conferences since war began. It was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Hands Across the Danube | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Because it is a low-lying alluvial plain. the entire coastal fringe of Louisiana is as soggy as a piece of fresh bread dunked in soup. Crisscrossed by bayous and canals. the Louisiana salt marshes cover nearly 20,000 sq. mi., worthless except as a wildlife sanctuary and for many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Marsh Buggy | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

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