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Assisted by some 20 people, Gershuni first made an incision in the elephant's tough skin just below her knee, using a foot-long saw instead of a scalpel. Then, with an electric drill, he cut a hole through one of the fractured bones and shoved in a 12-in.-long steel pin; this served as an anchor for the heavy hoof-to-knee cast. Three and a half hours later Mandavu was brought back to consciousness. Within GARRISON minutes she lumbered to her feet, apparently no worse for the experience...
Last year, the Cornell fans blew the game open between the second and third periods when they showered Harvard players with foot-long fish. This time, their heroes did it for them as Dan Duffy, Brian Marrett and Ken Kirley all tallied first-period goals and freshman goaltender Darren Eliot limited the icemen to a lone score by Greg Britz at 14:10, placing the Crimson at a two-goal deficit they never made...
...artists have gone to extremes to adjust to the setting: most of the art screams for attention. Gyorgy Kepes creates a nine-foot-high, 100-foot-long stained glass window that transforms passing headlights of underground buses. Stephen Antonalos pins arcs of neon along an escalator. A windmill makes music when people walk by it; a metal mobile shatters light through prismatic diffraction...
...elite sport that it once was. And reluctant to pay high prices for gasoline, more and more Boston area residents are staying close to home, taking advantage of a free breeze and the various sailing facilities in the vicinity. Last Tuesday, students of the Boston Sailing Center manned 27-foot-long Solings and enjoyed an evening of racing in Boston Harbor...
...have your choice of two different pastries to dip in your soup. The fried Chinese cruller is best. It's a foot-long stick of light, airy fried dough, and since it's not sweet, tastes good with either the sweet or plain soups. The other is mandarin pie, a leathery strip of dough with sesame seeds on top. Not as tasty as the cruller...