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...disk, burp when it ejects a disk or bark when it launches a program. Soon after it was released, a lively trade sprang up at user-group meetings for bootleg sounds tape-recorded from the TV and digitized in home computers, from Bart Simpson saying, "Thanks, man" to Porky Pig stuttering, "That's all, folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Booms, Boings and Wisecracks | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

...UBIQUITOUS PIG...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Season's Readings | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

...governed state can ever be founded in Russia that is not based on a uniquely Russian understanding of injustice. As a popular maxim puts it, if a Russian peasant discovers that his neighbor has two pigs and he has only one, he would rather see his neighbor's extra pig slaughtered than raise a second one of his own. Such crude but firmly ingrained egalitarian ideas predate communism. They help explain why the average Russian is so suspicious of the new breed of street entrepreneur who hawks everything from bathtub fixtures to brassieres on city sidewalks. He welcomes the sudden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture: A Mind of Their Own | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

Here we find only Matt Dillons, Bridget Fondas, and similarly nubile and sexy twentysomethings. We may never sport such beauty, but we relate to these characters because they veg and stress and pig out in front of the tv, like we're all supposed...

Author: By Marc D. Zelanko, | Title: Sexy, Spunky and Single | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

...rounding up wild does at the National Zoo's research center in Front Royal, Virginia, and inoculating them with what amounts to an antipregnancy vaccine. Developed by Kirkpatrick and two other scientists, the technique, known as immunocontraception, involves injecting a protein extracted from the reproductive system of a pig. In making antibodies to attack the foreign pig protein, the deer's immune system also attacks the doe's own, very similar protein. The result is temporary sterility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Planning Reaches the Forest | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

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