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...your hopeful eyes, the large box under the tree at Christmas promised hidden delights. Indeed, as you eagerly tore open wrapping paper, you revealed a gray compact box, two squarish, unwieldy controllers, a zapper gun, and the ultimate in cartridges: "Super Mario Bros." with "Duck Hunt." 8-bit utopia was yours! That first night, you tried desperately to shoot all of those damn ducks, and rescue Princess Toadstool from the clutches of the evil Bowser. In the soft glow of the T.V. screen, your face was radiant and peaceful...

Author: By Annie K. Zaleski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: GROWING UP CYBER | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...final clue led to my window where I found a stuffed animal hanging off the ledge that said 'Someone at Harvard loves you.'" Jeanne had gotten her roommates to decorate the whole room and plant the scavenger hunt clues while they were at the a cappella concert...

Author: By Jennifer Y. Hyman, | Title: You're the One That I Want | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

When they got back to Brian's room, Brian found a chocolate heart taped to his door with an attached note saying, "Que les jeux commence!" It was the first clue to a scavenger hunt that took Brian all over his room. "Each note I found contained a clue, a chocolate heart, and one thing written on it that Jeanne loves about me," Brian fondly remembers. The notes expressed everything that Jeanne loved about Brian: his kiss, his enthusiasm, his taste in women and his purple sweater...

Author: By Jennifer Y. Hyman, | Title: You're the One That I Want | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...whole spinosaur family of dinosaur that Suchomimus belonged to. Is he the direct ancestor of modern crocodiles, for example? He has pretty much the same jaw and teeth: "It was built for snaring and swallowing," said Sereno. Strangely enough, with all that equipment, Suchomimus did nothing more dominant than hunt for fish. But if you think that makes him a weenie, just remember: The body Sereno found was not even fully grown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fisher King | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...plan for turning bear management over to a consortium of the three states, two national parks, seven national forests and four federal agencies. Environmentalists fear this unwieldy arrangement could weaken grizzly-conservation efforts (the head of Wyoming's Game and Fish Department has talked of authorizing a trophy hunt of nuisance bears). As the grizzlies den up for the winter, stay tuned for the growling of experts fighting over the bears' fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planet Watch: Planet Watch | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

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