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Visitors board Simba One, an oversize tram (seats 32) that will take you on a safari through "the Serengeti grassland system," and as one fellow steps into the open-air vehicle, he asks, "Is it air-conditioned?" No, mate, this is reality. Real crocodiles lazing primordially below that rickety bridge. Actual cheetahs motoring their stretch-limo bodies across the savanna. Genuine loamy smell over there near the warthog. (Hakuna matata, guys--it's only nature's perfume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: Beauty and the Beasts | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...from Sea World to dockside. Once aboard the Conifer, J.J. was carried through gentle swells to a position 2.1 nautical miles off Point Loma, Calif., a scenic finger of land near San Diego. There, amid a noisy flotilla of 12 boats, the sling was lowered, and chief boatswain's mate Thomas Young barked the words never before heard: "Release the whale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aboard the Conifer: My, How You've Grown! | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...Internet -- or at least, environmentalists around the world are hoping it will be a live sex site. Streaming video of 6-year-old Bai Yun and 20-year-old Shi Shi, two pandas at the San Diego Zoo who have been passing up their once-yearly opportunity to mate, is now being broadcast on the Discovery Channel?s web page. Whether the presence of cameras in their private quarters will encourage the endangered pair to make a little panda whoopee is a anyone's guess, but zookeepers want the world to be watching, just in case. ?If we have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panda-ing to Basic Instincts | 4/3/1998 | See Source »

...animal, there are few things as valuable as a good nose. In a world without speech, it's often scent alone that tells you if a stranger is in the mood to mate or in distress, is preparing to attack or about to retreat in fear. The chemicals that carry these odorless messages are called pheromones, and while most animals produce them, the highest animals--humans--were thought to be above such crude olfactory signals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Following Our Noses | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

Harvard committed seven turnovers in the first 6:32 as the Crimson seemed unable to cope with Arkansas' quickness. Smith and her backcourt mate, junior Sytia Messer, bothered Harvard's ball-handlers relentlessly on defense Smith logged three steals in the first half...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Basketball NCAA Run Ends at Hands Of Arkansas, 82-64 | 3/17/1998 | See Source »

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