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...animals for display, some zoos hope such breeding experiments can provide the basis for new populations in protected habitats. The London Zoo has already helped put zoo-bred chimpanzees into the forests of Gambia, where they seem to be surviving. Several of the Bronx Zoo's condors now dive and wheel over the mountains of Peru. One of the most prestigious breeding programs has been established on the island of Jersey in the English Channel, where a British group under the honorary directorship of Biologist-Author Gerald Durrell has been breeding everything from rare primates (lemurs and marmosets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Playing God, and Noah, at Zoos | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

...Games show, a stunt driver named Spunky piloted a car off a 45-ft.-high ramp into a lake. The camera focused on the clenched face of his wife as rescue divers made their way to the sunken auto. Would Spunky survive his dive? (Answer: yes.) In another segment, Motorcyclist Rex Black well roared off a ramp and over two parked helicopters as their blades whirled at 350 r.p.m. "He barely cleared the last blade!" exulted the commentator as a slow-motion replay showed just how close Blackwell had come to being converted to steak tartare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Incredible? Or Abominable? | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

...were snapping them up. "It's a lot of look at a relatively little price," says Ruttenstein. "It's for the young or young-thinking woman, the fashion or contemporary customer." Adds Manhattan's Norma Kamali, 34, one of the first of the major designers to dive into jumpsuits: "It's the reverse of putting an outfit together. It's not lots of pieces you have to coordinate. When you run out in the morning, you just jump into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Teaching Old Togs New Tricks | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

Harvard's water polo team will dive into the depths of its first varsity season tonight at Blodgett Pool, trying to out-amphibian the University of New Hampshire starting...

Author: By Jay Woodruff, | Title: Water Polo to Debut Tonight | 9/17/1980 | See Source »

They say some things never change, and until this summer, Elsie's, that venerable Mount Auburn Street dive, could have been used as proof. But gone are the seedy, chipped, dirty white formica countertops and hospital green walls. Gone too, apparently, are the long lines and lack of seating space...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Elsie's Renovations | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

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