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Most nights, armed men stomp through the Périgord-Limousin Regional Park in southwestern France with orders Vignette StoryServer 5.0 Tue Jul 14 08:50:22 2009 to shoot ... frogs. But not just any amphibians. They're after Rana catesbeiana - the North American bullfrog - introduced to France in 1968 by a French aviator who liked the idea of the critters croaking in his garden. They're now an ecological menace. Weighing up to a kilo, these voracious predators gorge on crustaceans, fish, other frogs, salamanders and even the occasional bird. "It's capable of attacking anything it can swallow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Operation: Kill Kermit | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

...concert hall is charged with anticipation. The 5,000 Arabs in the audience break into deafening cheers, stomp their feet, clap their hands and chant "Sa-mi! Sa-mi!" until at last the lights go down. The orchestra swells and Sami Yusuf, 26, emerges through billows of smoke, dressed in a chic black suit and white open-collar shirt. Catching sight of him, the crowd goes crazy, screaming and whistling as though Elvis just entered the building. But when Yusuf begins to sing, it's clear he's not quite like other rock stars. "Peace and salutations upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet Islam's Biggest Rock Star | 7/31/2006 | See Source »

...currently in the hands of more than 10 million users, he says. Microsoft's goal is to attract 200 million. If collaboration between research and the business side can keep producing that kind of growth at Microsoft, Bill Gates will most certainly have a lot of reasons to stomp his feet and dance on the floor, whether or not StepMail eventually makes it to market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Microsoft's Show-and-Tell | 3/9/2006 | See Source »

...event featured a “Guess That Tribe” game, in which participants competed for prizes Jeopardy-style based on knowledge of tribal culture, history, and traditions. Erica A. Scott ’06, a Lenape native from Massachusetts, led a “call-response stomp dance,” where she sang words in her tribal language to audience member echoes. “For us, we probably learned as much about different nations and cultures as anyone who walked into our event today,” said NAHC President Leah R. Lussier...

Author: By Yingqiuqi chelsea Lei, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: NAHC Celebrates Diversity | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

Shiftee wowed the crowd with turntable acrobatics while MCs J-Ring and Normal stomp-hopped across the stage, shout-rapping over the bouncing heads of their buzzed fans. Nothing’s fair though, and Landing only got a change to play a few songs before the bill moved...

Author: By Sam D. G. Jacoby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rapper Cage Breaks Loose | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

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