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...Elsa Wasserman, who helped conduct the study, said yesterday that the project recommended improved communication between teachers and the school administration, adding that teachers want to know the "processes" involved in lay-offs...
...records, liked to tell a story about a late night conversation with them: "Wooler undervests visible beneath their nightwear, [they were] reading Italian illustrateds." Callas decided to become Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday was a favorite film) and lost 62 Ibs. in two years. In 1956 Callas met Elsa Maxwell, who swept her into European café society and the next year introduced her to Aristotle Onassis...
...than four decades in Kenya, she sketched and painted the region's luxuriant flowers and plants, captured portraits of its tribespeople in their fast-vanishing traditional costumes, and-most of all-made the great cats of Africa her friends. No lion on earth ever became more famous than Elsa, the cub that Adamson reared from infancy and then painstakingly trained to return to the wild. Through her book Born Free, its sequels and the film, Adamson made her lioness as popular and familiar as Lassie. Feeding the tiny cub with a baby bottle, pushing her on a homemade swing...
Childless themselves, the Adamsons fashioned a wilderness family out of Kenya's foundling animals. In 1956, after George had shot a ferocious lioness, the couple rescued her just-born litter. The two stronger females in time went off to a Dutch zoo. Elsa, the weakest, stayed behind to become first a pet (she rode on their Land Rover roof, often slept in George's tent) and then a problem. When Elsa by chance met and roamed briefly with a pride of wild lions, the Adamsons determined to release her and let her return to freedom. In preparation...
...Elsa and the three cubs she mothered were only the Adamsons' first experiments in returning animals to the wild. George continued to work mostly with lions, including some who had performed in Born Free. But Joy turned in the 1960s to cheetahs, successfully de-taming an engaging creature named Pippa and launching another three books. In recent years, while plowing book and movie profits into an international conservation project called the Elsa Wild Animal Appeal, she also turned her attention to rehabilitating leopards for the wild, a project that she was on the way to completing as she approached...