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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anybody in this tiny (pop. 4,000) 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mammoth Lakes, California: Can't We All Get Along? | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...deal is relatively straightforward: in exchange for $4.2 billion (roughly 10%) worth of its high-flying (if arguably inflated) stock, AOL gets all of Netscape, right down to the last cappuccino machine. These are indeed dark days for the Mountain View, Calif., start-up. The company whose trailblazing browser jump-started the World Wide Web back in 1994 was supposed to become the fastest hot rod on the Infobahn. Instead, Bill Gates sideswiped it into a ditch and left AOL to strip the wreck for parts: a browser, a website and a treasure chest of software. How well AOL exploits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AOL, You've Got Netscape | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

With 7:42 remaining in the first half, Hill sliced through the Mountain Hawks' paint like the proverbial hot knife through butter and flipped in a lay-up to make him the 19th Harvard player to cross the 1,000 career points mark and the first to couple it with 400 career assists...

Author: By Tim Hill, | Title: HILL TOPS | 12/1/1998 | See Source »

Though new AIDS drugs could mean a mountain ofmoney, Huang said he and his fellow researcherswill probably not be involved in drug development...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Researchers Find New Clues to AIDS Virus Replication | 12/1/1998 | See Source »

This morning, Mark's wife Karolyn, who has not missed an opening day in years, was stationed up on the mountain and allowed three spike-horned bucks, each bigger than the one before, to pass unharmed. The fifth or sixth was bound to be a monster, she thought. But the trend ended with Buck 3. The guys got nothing either. No one seemed to mind, and there was much teasing of Karolyn for taking a cell phone up the mountain along with her Winchester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Kids Hunt? | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

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