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After graduating in 1979, he headed for the Amazon and began visiting shamans, some of whom let him stay for a while as a student medicine man. He slept in thatched huts, ate delicacies like boiled rat, suffered vampire-bat bites and was nearly electrocuted by a giant eel. And he collected, as fast as he could, hundreds of plants that supplied ingredients for the shamans' medical arsenal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forests: MARK PLOTKIN: In Search Of The Shamans' Vanishing Wisdom | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...carcasses still warm, he and his companions kindle a fire, carve choice pieces from an elk loin, and roast them on a willow stick. "We had salt; we were very hungry; and I never ate anything that tasted better." Teddy, the bulliest of the bull elk--armed, articulate, carnivorous--slept out among the stars that night with a conscience gloriously untroubled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Kids Hunt? | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...This is not early. I have three kids. Actually we slept late. I let them go to school late because we went to see the premiere of [the new video] Lion King II last night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paula Poundstone | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...BOOZMAN, an eye surgeon and Republican contender for the Senate in Arkansas, claimed that a fear-driven adrenaline rush keeps rape victims from getting pregnant. Guess someone slept through a semester in med school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oops! The Top Gaffes of Election '98 | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

Glenn, who said that he found this trip easier in some respects than his last, and that he "slept like a log" his last night in space, nevertheless appeared somewhat shakier than the other astronauts as he disembarked from Discovery...

Author: By Tiffany C. Bloomfield, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sleepless in SPACE | 11/10/1998 | See Source »

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