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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...

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

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...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Big Red Melts Icemen, 6-1, With Aid From Unruly Crowd | 2/21/1980 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Lois E. Nesbitt, | Title: Art Goes Under | 2/15/1980 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Anthea Letsou, | Title: Pleasure in the Harbor | 7/10/1979 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Nancy A. Tentindo, | Title: A Short Leap Forward | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

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