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...happened a year ago in the Chalbi Desert, in the Northern Frontier District. John Hall and his daughter Susan were camping in the open. It was 11 at night when the hyenas came, screaming and laughing, their eyes flashing in the moonlight. There were six or seven hyenas in the pack, and even after Hall opened up on them with his shotgun, they kept coming at him. Hall and his daughter raced for their vehicle, which was open at the sides, and still the hyenas came on, working as a pack, snapping hungrily. Hall plunged the vehicle at them repeatedly...
...others want to do a specific thing. "I'd like to go moonlight skiing," says Milbert D. Shin '87. "It find of creates an atmosphere...
THERE'S NOTHING more loveable about the sisters in Carlos Fuentes' Orchids in the Moonlight than the force with which they hate one another. The sisters, faded Hollywood starlets, bicker constantly, often as the characters they played in their youth...
...retires with his wife Thelma to Florida and becomes, in his words, "light-headed, lackadaisical." So he puts together a band, a big band -- Stan Spiro and the Townsmen Orchestra, featuring music in the Glenn Miller mood -- and all of a sudden retirement is a dream, just one long Moonlight Serenade...
...Soviet Union has long unofficially condoned elements of capitalism in its nominally all-Communist society. Craftsmen and professionals regularly moonlight to supplement their state-regulated salaries. The practice is called nalevo (working "to the left"). Last week the Supreme Soviet made much nalevo legal by passing a law that allows 29 types of private business, including carpentry and auto repair. One reason for the legislation is that it enables the state to collect added revenues. Practitioners of nalevo must now + register with their local governments and annually relinquish up to 13% of their earnings as income...