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...this artful fakery is the centerpiece of the zoo's new Congo Gorilla Forest, scheduled to open this week. The $43 million exhibit will provide a homey setting for at least 19 gorillas, not to mention small populations of okapi, red river hogs, mandrills, wolf monkeys and about 70 other exotic species. The exhibit is intended not only to attract visitors but also to direct their attention--and their dollars--toward the plight of the animals' native habitat in the Congo basin, an area about the size of Western Europe that finds itself under relentless assault from loggers, poachers...
Whether the exhibit will achieve that political and economic mission is uncertain. Even before it opens, however, its other mission--providing a sanctuary where gorillas can live as they were intended to--is being fulfilled. "It's such a pleasure," says Vedder, who serves as director of Africa programs for New York's Wildlife Conservation Society, "to see gorillas doing gorilla things...
...piece about prescription medicines for teenagers who exhibit moodiness or anxiety [VIEWPOINT, May 31] incorrectly referred to the authorship of a recent Internet posting that listed some possible symptoms of manic depression in teens. The posting was written with the help of the American Academy of Adolescent Child Psychiatry, not the National Association for Mental Illness...
...Rosett and her husband Charles let their two young sons eat pizza in the bathtub; that desperate measure is now de rigueur on all their family trips. On a business trip to New York City, Candyce Stapen took her daughter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see an exhibit of Impressionist paintings but wound up, at her daughter's insistence, counting the dogs in 18th and 19th century hunt scenes instead. "It wasn't what I had planned, but it was wonderful," she says. And one weathered traveler has been pleasantly surprised when her two teenagers have brought friends...
There are parodies of 1920s dance-band music that make you want to revive the genre, and sweetly simple ballads, like All for You, that in an alternate universe might have been standards by now. Sondheim's wit is on engaging display in Exhibit A, a how-to guide to scoring with a girl, and What More Do I Need?, a cynical-sentimental tribute to New York City: "The dust is thick and it's galling/ It simply can't be excused/ In winter even the falling/ Snow feels used." O.K., Broadway, your move...