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...their diet," says George Schaller, director of the Animal Research and Conservation Center at the New York Zoological Society. Schaller has been studying the pandas in their native habitat since December 1980. Unfortunately, by a curious botanical twist, a staple of their diet, the arrow bamboo, is now undergoing one of its periodic blossomings. When this happens, once every 45 or 50 years, a whole mountainside of bamboo may erupt in flowers, scatter seeds and then perish. The bamboo will regrow in a few years to sufficient size (perhaps 3 ft. high) to provide fresh food for the pandas. Meanwhile...
...avert a similar calamity in arrow-bamboo regions, where a sizable portion of the wild pandas dwell, Chinese scientists, aided by the World Wildlife Fund, are undertaking emergency measures. One tactic: leaving roasted pork chops and goat meat on the mountain slopes in hopes that the pandas will turn from their normal vegetarian diet. Explained Schaller: "They'll eat meat if they can get it easily." The scientists are also using meat to lure pandas to lower-lying regions where other types of bamboo may be available...
...said that she was an arrow speeding towards the world's great heart and that she could almost feel its warm red pigment seeping into her pores, would that be acceptable? It was like that...
...centers are sponsoring the memorial service, scheduled for 4:30 Monday at St. Paul's Church on Bow and Arrow Streets. Following the service, Mrs. Aquino will attend a reception organized by the C.F.I.A. in Adams House Lower Common Room...
...known for jotting mathematical formulas in the upper left-hand corner of a blackboard at the beginning of a lecture and then gradually covering every bit of remaining space with symbols, until he ends up in the lower right-hand corner. His most striking qualities, says Stanford's Arrow, are "the quickness of his mind and the elegance of his thought...