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Ever since the wily serpent urged Eve to take that fateful bite out of the apple, snakes have been on just about everybody's enemies list. In the Old West, calling someone a "rattlesnake" or "snake in the grass" could get you shot. Even newborn monkeys recoil instantly when shown the image of a snake. Is there anyone who has something good to say about the creatures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN PRAISE OF SNAKES | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

...general thinking in cardiac surgery, Batista believes he is just respecting nature's laws. He developed his ideas by studying the hearts of animals he found on his horse farm near the Angelina Caron Hospital, where he works. To his astonishment, the heart of every animal he examined, from snake to buffalo, had the exact same proportion of muscle mass to heart size. He found that the relationship came down to a simple equation, loosely based on the law of La Place: mass = 4 x radius3. For every centimeter that it enlarges, the heart needs an enormous amount of muscle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOO BIG A HEART | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

SCORPIO: Just cause your symbol is a snake, don't think of yourself in such negative terms. Snakes are good for the Yard. (See LIBRA...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Guest Horoscope | 9/19/1997 | See Source »

...held hostage by the moods and attention spans of people they do not know. The unstable affections of fandom have a life of their own and acquire an unpredictable but nearly absolute power over one's personal and professional fate. Fame becomes a form of primitive, dangerous religion, like snake handling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NASTY FAUSTIAN BARGAIN | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

...Washington atmospheric physicist Edward Sarachik suggested that people most affected by the ENSO cycle--not just farmers and fishermen but also commodities traders, water-resource managers and insurance underwriters--should look at a prediction the way a savvy gambler might look at a set of dice that turns up snake eyes more frequently than expected. "You wouldn't want to bet $100 on the first throw," he notes. "But if you bet $1 on a hundred throws, you'll come out ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IS IT EL NINO OF THE CENTURY? | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

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