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Hancocks goes further than most zoo professionals would, but there is growing agreement that zoos are on the verge of yet another wave of transformation. This time the question is whether some animals--not just elephants but also giraffes, bears and others--belong in zoos at all. "On the one hand," says Ron Kagan, executive director of the Detroit Zoological Society, "people want to see the signature animals like elephants, gorillas and giraffes. But we believe that the American public wants us to create facilities for these animals only if we can provide them with a good life...
Bears, however, are a different story. Many experts believe they don't belong in zoos at all. They're too curious and exploratory to be satisfied by an artificial environment. But it's not clear what you do with a bear that's already in captivity. Animal-rights activists have long complained about the highly ritualized, seemingly neurotic behavior of Gus, the polar bear in New York City's Central Park Zoo. "Though Gus is perfectly healthy, people tell us to send him back," says Alison Powers, communications director of the Wildlife Conservation Society, Central Park's parent institution...
...Leah R. Lussier ’07, NAHC president, called him an “ogichidaa”—the word for “leader” in the language of the Ojibwe tribe, to which she and Meat’s family belong. Meat had been spending the semester at his home at Leech Lake Reservation—“Tha Rez,” he called it on his Facebook.com profile—and had been planning to return to Leverett House in the fall to write his economics thesis on Native American reservation...
...socializing. They acted as a window into a social world that few Harvard students are allowed to taste, much in the way that People magazine provides a window into the lives of the world’s wealthy socialites. For the roughly 90 percent of students who do not belong to an exclusive social club, these e-mails were decidedly of interest...
...rehabilitate and rebuild all the city infrastructures especially those that belong to the city governments, including its sea ports, airports, road, bridges, schools, hospitals, universities and have committees of the intellectuals running and operating these facilities...