THREE -MEMBERS of San Francisco's Bay Area Carnivorous Plant Society have plead guilty to : Smuggling more. than 200 rare plants into the U.S. from Asia.

Said another society member, who speculated on. their. motive: “Carnivorous plants can really give you. an obsession... I started out ‘with ‘a.-Venus's. flytrap. 35 years ago... You get one and you want _ another ¢ one.

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“ball coach’ Bobby Knight, wearing traditional: red. sweater Converse sneakers, from local doli- Tom Alberts; for $545;

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The Consumer Product Safety Commission has ended five years of deliberation on what to do about five-gallon buckets.. which it deemed dangerous to toddlers who

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In May 1994, the agency tenta- tively had decided to order manu- facturers to redesign the buckets. However, it has now decided mere- ly to require warnings on the pails.

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