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Keepers of the p.c. flame have renamed New York's grand old Bronx Zoo -- to be known henceforth as the International Wildlife Conservation Park -- feeling that the word zoo has taken on unfortunate connotations. But to be fair, how about neutral names for animals whose names have unsavory second meanings...
Efrain Cortes '94, the president of Puerto Rican student group La O, says a student once asked him, "So, you're a Puerto Rican from the Bronx. How did you get here...
...world became one giant megalopolis for photographer Anthony Suau. Assigned to shoot the pictures for this week's cover story on the many problems and opportunities to be found in megacities around the globe, Suau began in Kinshasa, Zaire, and wound up in New York City's South Bronx, by way of Mexico City; Sao Paulo and Curitiba, Brazil; and Tokyo. "I was shotgunning from one city to the next," recalls the 36-year- old native of Peoria, Illinois. "One street in Tokyo just blended into the next one in New York City...
...destitute sections of the cities he visited. "Sometimes you almost needed your own gang for protection," he says. In Zaire mourners in a funeral procession threw stones at the car in which Suau and his guide were riding. On one of the major drug-sale corners in the South Bronx, people in the buildings above heaved eggs and rotten food at Suau and the cortege of Guardian Angels who were escorting him through the neighborhood...
Competing in Van Cortland Park at the annual heptagonals tournament--against all Ivy teams plus Army and Navy--Harvard doesn't expect to come away with the title, but both the men's and women's squads have something to prove today in the Bronx...