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Armed with a bag of apples, he aims his Chevy Suburban through the gates of $ his huge Spanish-style home in McAllen, Texas, and heads north for his ranch in the rangeland. McAllen lies in the Rio Grande valley, just above the Mexican border, but its architectural boot print owes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rio Grande Valley, Texas | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

So it seems almost natural when a 2,500-lb. bull rhinoceros crashes out of the undergrowth in a full thundering charge. "Here, Macho," Bentsen calls. "How 'bout an apple for breakfast?" The massive beast puts on the brakes just short of a six-bar iron fence that separates man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rio Grande Valley, Texas | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

Nothing is safe from her depredations, not even endangered species. Government agents recently rounded up a band of poachers accused of slaughtering hundreds of black bears in the Northeastern U.S., ripping out their gallbladders and selling them for profit. The gallbladders are dried and ground into powder and sent to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Aphrodite Was No Lady | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

Most people have probably never heard of Bill Lee, a former southpaw pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and later the Montreal Expos. Lee, nicknamed "The Spaceman" by his teammates and the local press for his eccentricity and outrageous antics, is the standard-bearer of the newly-formed American wing...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: Spacing Out on Politics | 4/7/1988 | See Source »

More than 100,000 hedgehogs are flattened on the roads of Britain each year. Of the survivors, thousands limp into the woods to pass the rest of their lives crippled and ill. But other victims are more fortunate. Rescued by Britain's growing legion of hedgehog fanciers, they are gently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Driver, Spare That Hedgehog | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

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