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...Dennis introduced me to Grave Digger, which weighs 10,400 lbs., has 1,400 horsepower and gets five gallons to the mile. This is the manliest paragraph I will ever write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digging My Own Grave | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

Texas, we are proud to report, ranks No. 1 in the country for animal-waste production, creating an estimated 280 billion lbs. of manure annually, which is twice as much manure as California, the No. 2 state, and comes to 40 lbs. of manure per Texan per day. The state is covered in glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home, Home On The Latrine | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

...still farther out in the water, Vance walked backward, pulling the shark along the sandy bottom of the shallow sea toward shore. With Jessie's arm only partly swallowed, the shark tried to wiggle free from Vance's barehanded grasp. But Vance, at 6 ft. 1 in. and 200 lbs., held on and dragged it to shore where his wife Diana and others had laid Jessie on the sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving Jessie Arbogast | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...rest of us to use. And unlike many other Web ventures, selling tickets online makes sense. With pricing and availability constantly changing, instant updates are essential. What's more, airlines save up to $20 a ticket in commissions, fees and mailing costs. "You're not shipping 40 lbs. of dog food across the country," says Internet analyst Henry Harteveldt of Forrester Research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Your Service: The Orbitz Blitz | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...nice people, we Americans, with 225 years of optimism at our backs. So last Wednesday when M.J., after months of teasing and toying, of shedding 25 lbs. and of endless practices, finished the year's most journalist-packed golf game not involving Tiger Woods and said he had make a decision about returning to the NBA in September, we got excited. He had said the day before, "I look forward to playing, and hopefully I can get to that point where I can make that decision. It's O.K. to have some doubt, and it's O.K. to have some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Up In The Air! | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

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