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...emerges at a dead run from the basement crawl space. One cop fires orange paint, others rubber bullets. Searles shoots self-propelled flash-bang rockets. It may not seem so, but the "eviction" was meant kindly. California law permits the killing of bears caught in private homes. Folks in Mammoth Lakes, however, prefer a "bear spanking." "The meaner I can be," says Searles, who developed this kinder if not gentler approach, "the longer he'll live...
...mountain ski resort town why you shouldn't feed wild bears, and you'll hear a rueful answer. They move in. For years the residents indulged the neighboring wild bears, treating them as entertainers. Restaurant owners left their garbage Dumpsters open so tourists would gather. Locals like Mammoth Times editor Wally Hofmann brought houseguests. "We'd sit in the car with a bowl of popcorn and wait to see a bear," he remembers. Then the bears stopped going home. They settled down to live in abandoned buildings and started having cubs...
...decided to build personal computers and needed a PC operating system. (Computers are born naked; they need operating systems to be presentable.) Mammoth, blue-chip IBM employed thousands of capable software builders, and didn't trust a single one of them; IBM hired Microsoft to build its operating system. Microsoft bought Q-DOS from a company called Seattle Computer Products and retailored...
Even though Justin C. Denham `02 has made the physical move from his hometown of Mammoth Lakes in toasty southern California to chilly New England, he has yet to switch his wardrobe. "The temperature is colder, but I'm addicted [to wearing shorts]. I'm going to hold on as long as I can. It's going to have to get a lot colder for me to change," says determined Denham, who wore pants only once last year--to his high school graduation. "When my legs are covered, it feels weird," he says. Denham's roommate Dalidor E. Snyder...
...these names rested in quiet solitude yesterday in the serene alcove of the Memorial Room tucked away in Memorial Church. Nine mammoth stone panels grace three walls of the room, listing the names, ringed by the words of President A. Lawrence Lowell: "While a bright future beckoned, they freely gave their lives and fondest hopes for us and our allies that we might learn from them...