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...Which animals are affected? Cattle, pigs, sheep and goats are all susceptible to the disease, as are some zoo animals and wild creatures such as hedgehogs, rats and deer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Disease and the Danger | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...absence of such a world, everyone will continue to go through the high school zoo, and most people will manage to cope. I, for one, rather enjoyed the experience. But I knew plenty of people who didn't, people who couldn't accommodate themselves to the warped hierarchies of an adolescent culture. I don't doubt that in their darker moments, these unhappy high schoolers fantasized that they, like Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman, might "take a flame thrower to this place...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: Abolishing High School | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...Burden traveled to a remote and legendary island in the South Seas at the behest of New York's Museum of Natural History to bring back a dragon. Two dragons, to be exact: Komodo dragons, 300 pounds heavy and 10 feet long, lizards that ended up in the Bronx Zoo and quickly pined away in the forbidding environs of New York. Burden told the story to his friend Cooper and a lightbulb appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monkey On My Back | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

...this veritable robot zoo, no company is more active than Tiger Electronics. The manufacturer, based in Chicago, is releasing about two dozen robotic toys this year. At its Toy Fair showroom, motorized sea turtles and jellyfish glide through bubbling fish tanks. Miniature mice shake when they're lonely and squeal when they're hungry. A 3-ft.-long Interactive Raptor (still in prototype) is so lifelike, it flinches when you pull its tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How 'Bout Them Bots? | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...what's the big deal? The problem is that putting computers behind a firewall is like taking your 6-year-old son to a petting zoo and telling him he can look at, but not touch, the turtles in the tank...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Tear Down This Wall | 2/22/2001 | See Source »

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