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Poor Omega. Once the pride of the Brookfield (Ill.) Zoo, he is now an outcast. Rejected by two female companions, the hefty 450-lb. gorilla sits alone in his cage, forlornly munching on alfalfa or taking a lackadaisical swing on the rubber tire hanging from his ceiling. Omega's problem is that he is sterile...
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...space needed for earth farming. Ralph Prince, an agricultural engineer at the University of Connecticut's Storrs campus, has run laboratory experiments that indicate that an acre producing only ten tons of lettuce by conventional farming can grow more than 700 tons by hydroponic methods. Chicago's Brookfield and Lincoln Park zoos raise much of their mammal fodder hydroponically and claim that their greens are particularly nutritious...
...They're all meat," a man from Brookfield says. "It's just the difference between sirloin and chuck," he adds, laughing. He explains that he won't give me his name because I have done nothing to prove that he can trust me. The man is in his late thirties. He tells me that he used to live in Massachusets and that he voted for Kennedy in 1960. "That's JACK Kennedy, mind you," as he pounds the table with his bottle of Michelob for emphasis. He turns to watch Vasilios and Pauline close up the bar and says softly...
...couldn't get a girl across a bridge, how can we expect him to run the country," Ed Lynch, the former assistant fire chief, says with an air of finality. Ed and his wife Ellie sit and drink with the man from Brookfield who laughs at my questions. "You just don't understand. These people are living so close to the line--they don't even realize that they have been living in poverty for generations. Politics doesn't help or matter. There are people starving in Farmington. They eat dog food. The shifts at the car factory have been...