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Vance continually frustrated the Bear pitchers by hitting just about everything that came his way, as he went 11-for-16 to lead Harvard to a split of both doubleheaders—allowing the Crimson to stay atop the standings, tied with their ursine foes...
...Boris Yeltsin will be more fondly remembered, as the man who turned the menacing Russian bear of Cold War fear-mongering into a warm and cuddly creature, supine, pitiable and willing to perform in exchange for scraps. And for one glorious moment in the hot summer of 1991, when he stood atop a tank in front of the Russian White House and faced down a coup...
...uterus, or as intact destruction several inches down the birth canal. But for the woman, there is often a big difference. Medical professionals who use the more controversial procedure say it is significantly easier on the woman, and that it could make a difference in her ability to bear children later in life, when she wants them...
...population also calls into question the center's practice of reintroducing captive-bred pandas into the wild. The fate of 4-year-old Xiang Xiang, a former Wolong resident, has added to the controversy. Having had his every need anticipated by a loyal band of caregivers, the baffled bear received the shock of his young life last spring. He was dropped into the middle of thick bamboo forest, making him the first giant panda bred in captivity to be released by Chinese scientists into the wild. Although he had received some survival training, Xiang Xiang soon found he had been...
Sadly for Xiang Xiang, the tough love backfired. In a subsequent encounter with a woods-wise cousin, he tried to escape by climbing a tree. Evidently that wasn't part of survival training: the bear fell and, from what rangers could gather, probably broke a leg. Rangers haven't been able to find Xiang Xiang, whose radio collar may have malfunctioned when he fell. Still, Zhang Hemin, director of the Wolong center, insists his charge had to be banished. "We did not want to keep Xiang Xiang because that would have shown our experiment had failed," he says...