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...sugar cane crops, they didn't count on the poisonous amphibians going after kookaburras, snakes and native cats instead. Now, after decades and millions of dollars spent trying to eradicate the man-made plague, a solution may be at hand: the DAHL'S AQUATIC FROG, native to Australia, can swallow infant and tadpole cane toads without any apparent ill effects?not bad, considering a grown cane toad can kill a dog in 15 minutes

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Survival of the Fittest | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

...start is tough for any team to swallow. But Harvard men’s volleyball has turned its season around, winning four in a row to push itself above .500 for the first time this year...

Author: By Karan Lodha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Sweeps Gulls | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

...months ago, Kmart and Sears got engaged. Then Nextel and Sprint announced their $35 billion wedding. Johnson & Johnson is buying Guidant, a maker of medical devices, for $24 billion. Two of the splashiest deals came last week: SBC, the Baby Bell based in San Antonio, Texas, looked poised to swallow its former parent, AT&T, in a deal that could top $15 billion. Then Procter & Gamble said it would acquire Gillette for $57 billion, forging a consumer-products giant with brands ranging from Gillette's Right Guard deodorant and Mach3 razors to P&G's Crest, Pampers and Tide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Land of the Giants | 1/31/2005 | See Source »

...sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 1/14/2005 | See Source »

Across the Nicobars, the International Red Cross estimates a death toll of 30,000 out of a population of 50,000. Meghna Rajsekhar, 13, saw the ocean swallow her mother and father, and after floating at sea for two days on a wooden door, she washed up on a Car Nicobar beach that was swarming with snakes. Newspapers wrote of refugees in Great Nicobar fending off crocodiles as they trekked through the jungle in search of water. For Aisha Majid, the tribal leader of Nancowry, an island filled with the homeless, the government's actions make no sense. She asks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Race Against Time | 1/9/2005 | See Source »

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