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That's precisely the problem, says Linda Lacy, developer of an 18,000-acre project in Jefferson County, where wildlife agents set traps last summer seeking jumping mice. They caught no Preble's but did get 218 other mice and one rattlesnake. "It's ridiculous to protect the animal when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colorado: The Mouse That Roared | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

The tricks offered range from the classic to the absurd, but are all reasonably priced--almost everything is under $10. Oldies-but-goodies fill the shelves: disappearing ink, joy buzzers, whoopee cushions, two headed nickels, trick decks of cards, finger traps and snakes that pop out of mixed nut cans...

Author: By Shara R. Kay, | Title: jack attack | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

All the witnesses know there are dangers in the forest, traps laid by ambition and expedience, predators whose survival instincts are far sharper than their own. And so how handy it was, after stumbling through eight weeks of leaked testimony and veiled answers, to come upon a road map that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will The Secretary Stick To The Script? | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

Water, water everywhere. Water on the moon, water on Europa. Twenty years and a few big drills, and the cold grey moon will be dotted with lake houses and tourist traps, kind of a Catskills for the new millenium. With the International Space Station grounded by delays and budget overruns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Final Potato | 3/7/1998 | See Source »

Perhaps now would be a good time to ask ourselves which we fear more: that cloning will produce multiple copies of crazed despots, as in the film The Boys from Brazil; or that it will lead to the society portrayed in Gattaca, the recent science-fiction thriller in which genetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case For Cloning | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

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