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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last week, Hsu said she and her roommate asked the superintendent to remove the "non-humane" mousetraps, those which kill the mice rather than simply trap them...

Author: By Jeremy A. Dauber, | Title: Brown Mice Invade Stoughton North | 10/9/1991 | See Source »

...Steam Trap...

Author: By Yea-lan Chiang, | Title: Too Much Hot Air in FDO? | 10/9/1991 | See Source »

Accidents are of course entropy, as is the slow wear of tire treads or the blur of alcoholic vision that suddenly turns all your raging horsepower and tons of steel from an asset into a trap. Too much entropy can deliver you back into Newton's dread realm after all. It was a big, black American sedan that skidded up the mountain road where I live on Memorial Day night, climbed a guy wire and broke the telephone pole. The way the car came to rest -- lights blazing, leaning against the opposite side of the pole from where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caution: We Brake for Newton | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

...Lobbyists also threatened to turn Jewish financial contributors and voters against recalcitrant Congressmen. Bush, already aware of the arguments of the campaign, was made even more furious by wire reports of statements by Israel's Housing Minister, Ariel Sharon, that Bush, in pursuing peace, had fallen into "an Arab trap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Thou Shalt Not Build | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...recovery tone can trap you into being a child," says Bly. "The myth honors your suffering; it gives images of an adult manhood that you will not meet in your community. It takes you out of your victimhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Child Is Father Of the Man: ROBERT BLY | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

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