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...what is that baby zebra doing inside my stall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Horse of a Different Stripe | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...mare named Kelly rolled over to foal on the clean straw of her specially lit, rubber-padded stall at a farm outside Louisville, the two attending veterinarians monitored the birth with more than customary anticipation. Reason: the newborn animal that later staggered uncertainly to its feet was a zebra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Horse of a Different Stripe | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...humorous discourse on the shrinking size of the Hershey bar to the woeful tale of male anglerfish that attach themselves for life to a female of the species and become little more than "a penis with a heart." He tackles such perennial barroom brain twisters as whether the zebra's stripes are white on black or black on white (his answer: the latter). He provides refreshing new studies of some of the founding fathers of geology and paleontology, including Nicolaus Steno, James Hutton and Louis Agassiz. He even takes time out to discourse on an evolutionary oddity called atavism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bones, Baseball and Evolution | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

...shuttle, to navigate without guidance from earth. During the last flight, the only references to the top-secret devices came in the form of cryptic commands to the astronauts from the Air Force Satellite Control Facility in Sunnyvale, Calif. ("Switch 3-A to full auto. Bay 1 to zebra plus 3"). NASA's new security consciousness represents a sharp break with its traditional openness about space activities. It also reflects the Administration's concern with meeting the Soviet challenge in what military planners consider the new high ground of space. Already, the Soviets are believed to have developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Once and Future Shuttle | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

This can mean anything from a zebra-striped bathing suit and chino walking shorts to a slinky, maroon silk one-shoulder gown and a black crepe cocktail dress. Davida Levy of Miami's Main Event even sells something called the "executive dress," which may be worn with a jacket and a reversible vest for an approximation of the three-piece look. Since maternity customers are often older, with jobs of their own and a certain amount of flexible income, they can manage triple-figure price tags with a minimum of fuss. Indeed, retail prices of maternity clothes have more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Stepping Out with My Baby | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

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