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...Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) brings role-playing to a frighteningly bizarre level. The Society credits itself with "recreat[ing] the good aspects of the Middle Ages in the modern world." Yes, membership in this club does indeed require one to don chain mail and brandish a rubber saber. But consider the perks. One staged spar in front of the Science Center will surely hook you-there's nothing quite like that first "Connecticut Yankee" adrenaline rush. President Alice H. Kao `01 says club membership is tailored to individual interests, noting that "there are different parts of the club. Depending...
Pandemonium reigns when the outlaw--800 lbs. of overfed, visibly upset black bear--emerges at a dead run from the basement crawl space. One cop fires orange paint, others rubber bullets. Searles shoots self-propelled flash-bang rockets. It may not seem so, but the "eviction" was meant kindly. California law permits the killing of bears caught in private homes. Folks in Mammoth Lakes, however, prefer a "bear spanking." "The meaner I can be," says Searles, who developed this kinder if not gentler approach, "the longer he'll live...
...manufacturers--and even the Chinese government--looking for scary, nonlethal weapons. His plan was to mix dominance, territorial marking and the animals' fear of confrontation to become, he explained to officials, the city's "baddest bear." Soon he began chasing bears from basements and out of school yards with rubber bullets, pepper spray and pistol-loaded screamer rockets. He shouted threats so each bear remembered him. After a bear left a house, Searles marked the den as off limits by sprinkling it with his own urine. "I get a lot of kidding about that," he admits...
When Ford stumbled, it was because he wanted to do everything his way. By the late 1920s the company had become so vertically integrated that it was completely self-sufficient. Ford controlled rubber plantations in Brazil, a fleet of ships, a railroad, 16 coal mines, and thousands of acres of timberland and iron-ore mines in Michigan and Minnesota. All this was combined at the gigantic River Rouge plant, a sprawling city of a place where more than 100,000 men worked...
SNEAKERS While many people, including the 13th century Indians of the Amazon, can lay claim to inventing sneakers, what really launched the boom was the arrival in 1916 of Keds, shoes with canvas uppers and rubber soles made by the U.S. Rubber...