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...Apparently there had been a large rubber ball at the top of the rubber slide, and Caroline had noticed it as Mommy had reached for the tickets and as the foul ball was descending toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caroline's First Game | 7/3/2001 | See Source »

...Japan and Taiwan, are often in a state of shock, having just seen their mothers killed by poachers. "There's no difference between human babies and the orangutans," says Wiwiek, an open-faced 24-year-old surrogate mother dressed in her working clothes, a white jumpsuit and green rubber boots. "We have to feed them with a bottle, bathe them, put them in Pampers and sing them to sleep. It feels like taking care of one of your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hanging On | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

Right now, in the middle of a Joshua-tree forest in southwestern Utah, there's a Folgers coffee can containing a pen, a notebook and a large rubber snake. It's just one of hundreds of prizes in the global scavenger hunt known as geocaching. All you have to do to win it is to make your way to 37.0939[degrees] N by 113.9429[degrees] W and pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geocaching | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...caches in all 50 states and in 46 countries. Later this summer 20th Century Fox will stash props from the movie Planet of the Apes in geocaches around the country as part of a stunt-marketing campaign. Now that Hollywood has discovered it, look for more than a rubber snake in a coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geocaching | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...variety of imported goods. Tourism does so because returning travelers demand the goods and services they have seen in foreign countries. Near my office in New York City, a branch of Pier 1 Imports looks like a cross between a yard sale and the great house of a rubber plantation in Southeast Asia. You can buy everything from Filipino and Indonesian cabinets to a Kyoto dining room and a Jamaican bedroom. (Jamaica as a source of fashionable bedroom furniture--who knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Praise Of Tourism | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

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