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...divine plan, a perfect order. The reason we don't want to acknowledge this is because then we would have to answer to a Creator who will hold us responsible for our actions. If you want to think of yourself as a descendant of a slug, fine. But don't pass it off to the rest of the world as fact. DAVID BROUSSARD Dallas Via E-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1995 | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

...began to create a stir at paleontological gatherings. Startled laughter greeted the unveiling of oddball Opabinia, with its five eyes and fire-hose-like proboscis. Credibility was strained by Hallucigenia, when Conway Morris depicted it as dancing along on needle-sharp legs, and also by Wiwaxia, a whimsical armored slug with two rows of upright scales. And then there was Anomalocaris, a fearsome predator that caught its victims with spiny appendages and crushed them between jaws that closed like the shutter of a camera. "Weird wonders," Harvard University paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould called them in his 1989 book, Wonderful Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Life Exploded | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...Kaiko's dive to the bottopm of the Challenger Deep. JAMSTEC engineers watched anxiously on a video screen, the robotic craft spent 35 min. at a depth of 35,798 ft.--2 ft. shy of Trieste's 1960 record. But during that brief visit, Kaiko saw a sea slug, a worm and a shrimp, proof that even the most inhospitable place on earth is home to a variety of creatures. Next winter Kaiko will return to the deep to look for more signs of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE OCEAN FLOOR: THE LAST FRONTIER | 8/14/1995 | See Source »

Everyone jumped when one round tore in, smashed into some communications gear and bounced harmlessly off the back of Castro's flak jacket. The Marine behind him handed the sergeant major a 7.62-mm slug. Castro handed it back with a smile. It was, he said, "no big deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESCUING SCOTT O'GRADY: ALL FOR ONE | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

...sloth takes another slug of Jolt, stifles a belch and says, ``I am Codex, the Crypto-Anarchist Sloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT SIMOLEON CAPER | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

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