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...make the noise in the throes of giving birth, and Pygmies imitate it because other duikers come running when they hear the call. This time, however, the braying attracts a large band of chimpanzees, drawn by the prospect of dining on vulnerable duikers. For a moment I feel the shiver of being hunted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Eden: a remote African rain forest | 7/13/1992 | See Source »

...voiced by Robby Benson) lives under the curse of a righteous witch: that he be a beast, confined to his castle, until he can love and be loved. Pretty Belle (Paige O'Hara) will be his cure -- if she can shake off her revulsion at % being his prisoner and shiver out of the clutches of Gaston (Richard White), a way-too-handsome galoot. In effect, she is trapped between two wolf men. She can see through Gaston's looking-glass ego, but it takes time for her to find the vulnerability within the Beast's barbaric, heroic grief. He must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keep An Eye on the Furniture | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

Those of us who shiver at the thought of the destruction of Israel can no longer afford to couch our arguments in cold, calculating terms of Realpolitik. If we rely on these obsolete arguments, we will lose...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: A Scary Situation | 2/7/1991 | See Source »

That prospect is sending a shiver of fear through the Arab world. The Algerian election represents the first time that Muslim fundamentalists have obtained a majority in a free vote in an Arab country. While some Arab leaders are flirting with reforms, most continue to cloak their disdain for democracy with self-serving warnings about the threat of fundamentalism. Algeria's returns are certain to support convictions that even a little democracy is too risky a gamble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Islam Ballots for Allah | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

Even as the earth rocked and rolled, California's army of seismologists rallied into action. In Berkeley, University of California graduate student Anthony Lomax felt the sidewalk shiver and watched telephone poles sway, then rushed to his seismographic station. "The instruments were off-scale!" he marveled. Within minutes the scientists on duty had pinpointed the epicenter of the quake in the rugged Santa Cruz mountains some 50 miles away. The spot was no surprise: it lay on the San Andreas fault, a great gash in the earth that extends nearly the length of the California coast. Even before the quake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Waiting for the Big One | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

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