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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just about every aspect of America's zoos has dramatically changed -- and improved -- from what viewers saw a generation ago. Gone are the sour cages full of frantic cats and the concrete tubs of thawing penguins. Instead the terrain is uncannily authentic, and animals are free to behave like, well, animals, not inmates. Here is a Himalayan highland full of red pandas, there a subtropical jungle where it rains indoors, eleven times a day. The effect is of an entire globe miraculously concentrated, the wild kingdom contained in downtown Chicago or the North Bronx. As American zoos are renovated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The New Zoo: A Modern Ark | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading--we are, after all, getting $5 a head for you dolts and therefore pile up as many of you apiece as we can get--this is what too many of you seem to forget. "Coleridge may be said to be both a classical and a romantic, but then...

Author: By A Grader, | Title: Grader's Reply: It's Not Really That Easy | 8/15/1989 | See Source »

...profound alteration of the very foundations of the Soviet system would have been unthinkable even a year ago. But many Soviet citizens are thinking the unthinkable these days. During his years of exile and his reign over the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1924, Lenin formulated prescriptions for every aspect of the nation's political, economic and social conduct. Now even he, like so much else in this changing land, is being questioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Chipping Away at an Icon | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

Most participants and coordinators of the summer programs at the Ed School consider the most valuable aspect of these programs to be the opportunity for a frank discussion of educational problems among peers from around the country...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Bringing Together Professionals in Education | 8/8/1989 | See Source »

THAT success has been furthered by Japan's stubborn refusal to open its shores to foreign goods. This economic policy has been the most noticeable aspect of Japan's world view, but it has been accompanied by two other significant decisions--a refusal to spend much on foreign aid and a shying away from any military build...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: End of the Status Quo in Japan | 7/28/1989 | See Source »

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