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The rhinoceros is one of earth's oldest creatures, dating from the Eocene epoch, when horses were the size of dogs, some 55 million years ago. There are five surviving rhino species -- black, white, Sumatran, Indian and Javan -- all of them endangered because of poachers who kill them for their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A War to Save the Black Rhino | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

It might have been a scene from one of Africa's guerrilla wars: four men wearing green fatigues and packing FN assault rifles fanned out across a wooded ridge. The bush crackled under a punishing afternoon sun as the government patrol scoured the hillside for enemy tracks. Then they heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A War to Save the Black Rhino | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

Zimbabwe has launched a last- ditch war to save the black rhinoceros and shut down an illicit trade in rhino horns.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page September 7, 1987 | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

The roll call is heartbreaking. Broadway's top musical showman, Michael Bennett, dead last month at 44. Manhattan Art Dealer Xavier Fourcade, 60. Fashion Designers Willi Smith, 39, and Perry Ellis, 46. Makeup Artist Way Bandy, 45. Charles Ward, 33, who left the American Ballet Theater to go Dancin' on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: How Artists Respond to AIDS | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

San Francisco has lost too many lives -- the highest proportion of any major U.S. city -- in and out of the arts. Moby Dick Records, an independent label with several popular disco disks in the early '80s, folded in 1984 after seven of its ten core employees died of AIDS. IN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: How Artists Respond to AIDS | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

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