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...irony is that Animal Kingdom sees itself as joining the ranks of the new, state-of-the-art Uber-zoos, like those in the Bronx, San Diego and Washington, whose mission is to help save species from extinction by breeding and studying them in captivity and, when possible, returning their descendants to the wild. Critics argue that the new zoos are merely high-tech amusement parks masquerading as research centers and that they divert funds from legitimate habitat-conservation programs. To be fair, several species have been saved through the efforts of these zoos. But as the deaths at Animal...
...student from the Bronx said, "There's more of an alliance [between black and Latina students], but not with Orientals. Latinas and blacks somehow stick together...
...million. The funds, for instance, provided $8.2 million, or 11%, of the $75 million operating budget of the Wildlife Conservation Society, the New York Times reported. The dividend cut could cost the society $2 million, the amount it costs to keep 1,105 birds alive at its Bronx...
...best approach to better race relations. Students can come together on more-or-less equal footing, and there is a degree of intimacy on this campus that doesn't exist in America's cities. I'm not sure how what I witnessed would transfer effectively to the Bronx...
Billy Lynch, a lovely, funny man (a hopeless, lifelong drunk), is dead in middle age. His funeral is just over, and his friends and family have gathered at a quiet bar in the Bronx to forgive his ghost and congratulate his widow. So Alice McDermott sets down at the outset of Charming Billy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 280 pages; $22), a rueful shrug of a novel whose strong, shrewd opening pages should be taught in college writing classes...