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Death & the Elephant. Based on a 19th century lottery to boost attendance at the Rio zoo, the animal game is no ordinary numbers racket. It starts off with 25 animals, each of which is assigned four consecutive numbers (from 01-04 for the ostrich to 97-00 for the cow). Odds for a straight animal bet are 20 to 1, but few bettors stop there. They can get 70 to 1 for guessing the last two figures of the winning number, 700 to 1 for the last three figures, 6,000 to 1 for getting all four figures right. They...
...trio's childhood friendship, surprisingly, shows no suspicion of strain despite a furious schedule that has filled their last year with 25 TV shots, a tour of Europe, and one-nighters in places like Yale, San Francisco's Cow Palace and Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall.† All three are still single. Though Diana, as lead singer, carries the heaviest load, they divide their earnings evenly. Using last year's take of $250,000 each (it may hit $400,000 this year), they moved their families into three modest duplexes on the same street in Detroit...
...sold for export, and Keralans use the money to buy extra rice at exorbitant black-market prices. They also largely ignore the sweet potatoes, bananas, pineapples and coconuts that abound in the state's lush tropical forests. And, though more Hindus discreetly eat meat, the vast majority in cow-rich India leave their beef on the hoof for religious reasons. Half of India's people are vegetarians, a fact that creates an especially heavy dependence on grain...
...news conference in Mos cow, top Soviet scientists disclosed that Luna 9's instrumented, picture-taking payload stood only 2 ft. high and weighed a mere 220 Ibs. The remaining bulk of the 3,428-lb. craft that the Russians fired into space consisted large ly of fuel and the retrorockets that slowed Luna 9's final descent. In addition, the payload was detached from its rocket engines just before impact and hurled to one side, well away from the area that was disturbed by the fiery blasts of the descending retrorockets...
...during his lifetime, and it did not get its more familiar name, Civil Disobedience, until after his death. Emerson, Thoreau's mentor and neighbor, found his friend's reaction "mean and skulking and in bad taste" and later wrote in his journal: "The State is a poor cow who does well by you-do not grudge...