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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...animal life. Study is the wrong word, really; what the Kratts do best is hang out. They strap on diving gear and swim with manatees (they're the sea cows), giggling as they scratch the animals, because manatees, we learn, love to be scratched. In another episode, the brothers roll around in the mud with hyenas. When the Kratts travel to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, which they describe as "the world's greatest construction site", we watch as a sea cucumber (an animal, actually) eats its lunch. Interspersed throughout the episodes are amusing bits of animation like "Stupid Things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: DUDES, ANIMALS ARE TOTALLY COOL! | 8/5/1996 | See Source »

Then Dick Lamm entered the race, in a manner of speaking, and started talking about the long-term effects of unchecked entitlement programs. "It isn't necessary to comment on every new museum that comes along," I said. "You don't see Bob Dole at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STUFFING OF DREAMS | 8/5/1996 | See Source »

Then Dole went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, leaving himself open to unlimited Lawrence Welk jokes and leaving me with little excuse for failing to deal with the stuffed-gopher museum in Torrington, Alberta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STUFFING OF DREAMS | 8/5/1996 | See Source »

Then, even before Dole hip-hopped over to the rock-'n'-roll museum, I heard on CBC radio about bowling with frozen chickens in Wellington, New Zealand. The interviewee was the marketing manager of a pub called the Fat Ladies' Arms. (No, I don't want to comment on that name right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STUFFING OF DREAMS | 8/5/1996 | See Source »

...wrapped in haze, the grass is wet, the half-risen sun casts great splotches of shadows on the front lawns. It is going to be a scorcher. The traffic, bemoaned by the woman on Atlantic Avenue, redoubles by the hour. Official cars flash red and white headlights and roll through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERROR ON FLIGHT 800: DEATH ON A SUMMER'S NIGHT | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

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