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...horses with even longer pedigrees arrived from New York in a far different but no less intriguing deal that will bring three Soviet horses to the U.S. The object: to improve the breed on both sides of the Atlantic. The animals, a stallion and a mare born in the Bronx Zoo and a mare from San Diego's zoo, are rare Przewalski's horses. Discovered in Mongolia a century ago by the Polish-born Russian army colonel for whom they are named, Equus przewalskii is the only truly wild, totally undomesticated horse still left on earth. The stocky...
Such difficulties are not surprising. "These pills are made from kidney-bean extract," explains Dr. Victor Herbert, chief of the hematology and nutrition laboratory at the Bronx Veterans Hospital in New York. "There is a chemical in beans that reduces the speed of starch digestion. If you don't digest the starch, then it goes down into your colon, where bacteria ferment and make gas out of it. That gas can give you nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps and diarrhea, as well as making you socially unacceptable...
...bugs and wiretaps placed by the FBI in a windowless Bronx warehouse recorded a sordid tale of dealings between New Jersey's Schiavone Construction Co. and a subcontracting firm run by William Masselli, a soldier in the Genovese Mafia clan. But the FBI did not bring up these taps during the confirmation hearings last year of Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan, who was a vice president and part owner of Schiavone, even though Donovan's name came up in the recorded conversations. FBI Director William Webster last week sought to shift the blame for this lapse away from...
Forsaking All Others is another depiction of an underdog-eat-underdog world, bordered on the south by small-town Puerto Rico and on the north by the slums of the South Bronx. To the west, living in suburban New Jersey, are the absentee Mafia lords of the drug trade. To the east, in the modest neighborhoods of Queens and Long Island, are the homes of the cops. The Puerto Rican hoods hate their poverty and lack of power. The Italian gangsters despise the Puerto Ricans because they say "New Jessey" and are competitors in crime. The cops believe that everybody...
...Once, migrations caused statues to be erected and poems to be written . . . There is no monument, however, to the new immigrants, the blacks who came to the South Bronx from Jacksonville, Florida, and Americus, Georgia, and the Puerto Ricans from San Pedro and Santurce and Salinas and Ponce. There is not even official recognition that these new immigrants accomplished something that nobody else could do: turn the United States into two actual nations, one country of about one hundred ninety-five million whites and the other . . . of about sixty-five million...