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...temporary home is not a zoo but a breeding station in the Wolong (Resting Dragon) Nature Reserve, in the thickly forested mountains of China's Sichuan province. The reserve is the center of an unusual collaborative effort of Chinese and Western scientists, mostly American. Their object: to ensure the survival of Jia Jia and the thousand or so other giant pandas still found in the wild...
...beep, bleep, buzz or zap. It is played on a simple 20-in. by 20-in. multicolored board with a wheel-shaped pattern. Any number from two to 24 players ask each other questions drawn from 1,000 cards; a correct answer allows the player to move. Hardly Dragon's Lair but with a price tag as high as $40 in the U.S., it is indisputably a Boardwalk of board games...
Coleco has bought the rights to produce a home version of Dragon's Lair and hopes to have it ready some time next year. Some companies, however, think the technology of bringing laser videodisc games into the home may be tricky. Says Parker Bros.' Stearns: "We very much want to participate in the laser videodisc market, and we're exploring it. But to rush headlong into this area when the hardware hasn't been perfected would be foolish...
...course, was the greatest name; he went on into Peking and became God ? but also, with almost no doubt, insane. Jiang Qing, a bitch killer and one of the great dragon ladies of Chinese history, now languishes under life sentence in jail. Peng Dehuai, a superlative military leader who had fought side by side with Mao for 20 years, went on to command the front against the Americans in the Korean War and later was named Minister of Defense. But he became the first openly to criticize Mao, and that cost him dearly. He was left...
Each year during the dry season, small islands and shallows appear in the Mekong River, which forms the border between Thailand and Laos. Normally it is a time for Thais and Laotians to compete in dragon-boat races, attend temple fairs and visit relatives on both sides. This year the ebbing of the great river brought instead an increase in tensions between the two countries. Vietnamese troops stationed in Laos sporadically opened fire on Thai fishermen, causing four deaths. The Thais not only shot back but lodged sharp protests with the Laotian government over the Vietnamese military presence. Underlying...