Word: rhinos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rhino Records has come to refer to itself as the master of reissue. For once, a company's rhetoric matches its place in the market...
...three recently released box sets, Rhino set out to document recordings by musical giants--Ornette Coleman, Otis Redding and Charles Mingus--and, through meticulous care and sparkling remasters and mixes, has succeeded in producing wonderful collections...
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Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has formally certified that both Taiwan and China are flouting international agreements by continuing trade in products made from endangered tigers and rhinos. Tiger bones and rhino horns are used in traditional Chinese medicine, but both countries will have to weigh tradition against the threat of possible trade sanctions...
...course, no car of the future will be made of rhino horn, just as no silk spun by spiders is likely be woven into designer clothes. For starters, it would take 500 to 1,000 spiders to spin out enough silk for one necktie. "And you probably wouldn't want to wear a necktie made of spider silk anyway," laughs zoologist John Gosline of the University of British Columbia. Reason: when wet, spider silk contracts 50%, a property that, in a necktie at least, might prove decidedly unpleasant on damp days. Armed with the tools of molecular biology, however, scientists...