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Aberle and Burns are about to complete five hours of work. Giving the cavern a last look, they scramble to a steel escape ladder that climbs straight up, 110 ft., through a hole bored in solid schist. Shifting from that ladder to a creaky elevator cage, they hoist themselves higher still. Beside the cage as it moves upward-to a mere 5,600 ft. below the earth's surface-water streams down the timbers used to shore up the shaft, acting as both lubricant and fire preventive. In the hot shaft it sounds, and feels, like a tropical rain...
Even in two trips a newcomer picks up a good deal of lore. Pigeon-toed prints usually mean a man is running. You can tell which predator killed an animal by the way the carcass was entered: dogs and wolves eat through the back, lions enter through the rib cage. An old man's tracks tend to be more regular than a young man's. Because shoes conform to a man's feet, you can later identify in court the feet that made a track, even if the shoes used during the crime were thrown away...
...CAGE AUX FOLLES Directed by Edouard Molinaro Screenplay by Francis Veber, Edouard Molinaro, Marcello Danon, Jean Poiret...
...Cage aux Folles is a sort of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (with overtones of Father of the Bride...
...Animal Behaviorist Frans de Waal of the State University of Utrecht had a better idea. Why not try to find another mother for Roosje? Her keepers chose Kuif, a high-ranking female in the colony. A worker began vigils outside Kuif s night cage holding bottle and babe. At first, Kuif did her best to hide her keen curiosity; in the chimp world, no one is supposed to approach a newborn without its mother's consent. After two weeks, Roosje was placed inside Kuifs cage, and to the scientists' delight, Kuif immediately cuddled her new charge, took...