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...Travelling is hard on wolves, We let themloose on fenced-in tennis courts to give themexercise," said Brown. "Sila is a little tough totravel with...after all, she is built to bringdown a 500-lb. moose...

Author: By Susan M. Carls, | Title: Listeners Learn to Love Last Leaping Lupines | 11/10/1990 | See Source »

...This is more of a speed and finesse game," the 6-ft., 180 lb. McCann said. "I hope that will change a bit... personally, I like the physical game more...

Author: By John B. Roberts, | Title: These Freshmen Are Not Very Offensive | 11/9/1990 | See Source »

...displayed an early enthusiasm for climbing walls, telephone poles and trees. Before long she graduated to scaling cliffs in the Sierra Nevadas. "I think I'm a really fortunate person, because what I'm doing for a career is also my passion," says the 5-ft. 2-in., 100-lb. Hill. Her long-term plans include finishing her book, The Art of Free Climbing, making a climbing video and designing a line of fitness togs that "bridge the gap between functional clothing for sports and leisure wear." Meanwhile, she will continue seeking new ways to defy gravity -- and sexual stereotypes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ten Women: To Each Her Own | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

Harvard's best chance to escape the zero columncame on Maher's opening kickoff return. The splitend motored across midfield, but a desperatetackle by 145-lb. Dartmouth kicker Dennis Durkinsaved the touchdown. Four plays later, Dartmouthtook over on downs, and the puntathon wasunderway...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Gridders Can't Turn Back Page | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

...switching instead to Maniac Mansion, a family sitcom that is not so much off the wall as out of this world. Dad is a mishap-prone inventor whose botched experiments have turned his brother-in-law into a housefly and his four-year-old son into a 250-lb. clone of Benjy in The Sound and the Fury. We learn these things in the show's 10th-anniversary special -- a nostalgia trip that takes place, oddly, on the program's first episode. Weirdest of all, the series is running, virtually unnoticed, on cable's Family Channel, a new incarnation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: My In-Law, The Housefly | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

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