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...world stills, for the longest time. Then, at the edge of sleep, hyenas come to giggle and whoop. Peering from the tent flap, one catches in the shadows their sidelong criminal slouch. Their eyes shine like evil flashlight bulbs, a disembodied horror-movie yellow, phosphorescent, glowing like the children of the damned. In the morning, one finds their droppings: white dung, like a photographic negative. Hyenas not only eat the meat of animals but grind up and digest the bones. The hyenas' dung is white with the calcium of powdered bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...goat was slaughtered outside the boma just after dusk. The visitor held the flashlight. Young Olentwala did the killing. He threw the goat on its side and seized it by the muzzle with his right hand and placed his knee against the goat's throat and thus strangled it. Joseph said this was the kindest way, but the American doubted it. It was done, anyway, rather tenderly. Joseph and Olentwala chatted easily in Ol' Maa as the goat spasmed and spasmed and spasmed, and at last expired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...several voyages of exploration into the subterranean passages, both with and without the aid of electricity. "They're all lit, if you can find the light switches. If you can't find the light switches, it's pretty scary," he says. "In all that time, I never took a flashlight down there," he continues. "That would increase your chances of getting caught...

Author: By Vindu P. Goel, | Title: Tales of the Tunnels | 2/5/1987 | See Source »

...took place in Tampa, where three cars carrying "Doctor K" and six friends were stopped by local police, who said two of the autos were "weaving." The police said a scuffle took place after Gooden grabbed an officer. The pitcher's response was that police hit him with a flashlight, and he fought back. Afterward, a routine test showed that Gooden's blood-alcohol level exceeded legal intoxication limits. The Met star was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest with violence, and battery on a police officer. The FBI is investigating the possibility that Gooden's civil rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 29, 1986 | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

Exterminators were summoned, ants dispatched, but one actor, arriving late, felt he had missed out on some fun. "Follow me," said Byrne sympathetically, as he grabbed a flashlight and walked into the dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock's Renaissance Man | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

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