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If You Build It, Bob Hope Will Come. For soldiers who want to putt away their boredom, the Pentagon is shipping out plywood and artificial turf to build miniature golf courses at Saudi bases. Watch out for the sand traps.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Footnotes From the Front | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

With their ailing captain, Ross Cockrell, struggling not to leave deposits in the sand traps, Harvard's other four players were on their own. Junior Robert Kincaid led the team, shooting 76-80--156 for the two-round, two-day tournament at the par-72 Hickory Ridge Country Club in...

Author: By John B. Roberts, | Title: Good News, Bad News For Golfers at Toski | 10/2/1990 | See Source »

Human activities have also disrupted the delicate natural systems that maintain water supplies. To obtain wood and clear land for homes and farms, mankind is chopping down forests at an unprecedented rate. But vegetation traps water, reducing runoff and replenishing groundwater supplies. Throughout the world, tree cutting has led to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Last Drops | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

"My interest in Egyptology began in third grade. It was a social studies class on Egypt. We had an assignment to do a design for the traps inside a pyramid. Mine went on for about three or four sheets of construction paper, and finally they had to tell me to...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Bringing Home the World: Exploring the Margins | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

When a five-year civil war in the early 1980s drove farmers to abandon their land and livestock, swarms of once docile domestic pigs and their offspring returned to the wild, rooting up the earth in peasants' gardens and devouring cassava, sweet potato and groundnut crops. With their powerful sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uganda: Night of the Wild Pigs | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

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