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...million-year-old species, a scientist suggested using bears or rabbits as surrogate mothers, while others raised the possibility of cloning. Regardless of the method, however, breeding pandas is tricky; of the 200 pandas born in captivity since the 1960s, less than half have made it to adulthood. Says Yu Changqing, panda program coordinator for the World Wildlife Fund in Beijing: "Our focus should be on increasing the number of pandas in the wild...
...concert was slogging to its conclusion. Britney Spears came on. The word was that Britney was going to deliver a performance that was too hot for prime time, too sexy for MTV, a performance that would launch her out of the world of PG-13 and into adulthood, if not adult films. Didn't happen. First off, she appeared on stage with circus- type animals - a tiger and a snake. I don't know about your fetishes, but, in my book, circuses are not erotic. I don't typically go to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey when I want...
...putting a plastic barrier between him and the world. It ultimately proved ineffective, and soon afterward, new treatments, including bone-marrow transplants, came along to make such experiments less urgent. Nonetheless, about half the 50 kids born each year with this type of immune deficiency still die before reaching adulthood...
...song lyrics. When teens start dating, they lurch back and forth between their private agonies and joys, and mask their problems and heartaches with arguments about learner's permits and lip gloss. We parents wait up nights and cross our fingers, hoping our kids will make it to adulthood unscathed. Unfortunately, many of them...
...knows more about young American bitchiness than she's telling--or showing--in Blonde. Sometimes, as in Election or the brilliant Pleasantville, in which she was a modern teen time-warped back to the bland, sitcom '50s, her wide-set blue eyes turn cold with contempt for square adulthood. Or squinch up in shrewd calculation of how to use (or abuse) the cluelessness of grownups...