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...Gerbil Cages. Weber-style classes overflow into nearby corridors with an abundance of playthings that teachers in regular classrooms use only sparingly. There are cages of gerbils, collections of shells and leaves, art corners, carpeted areas where children can sprawl while they read. To encourage math and science, there is more than the usual amount of measuring equipment, from tape measures to stop watches. To encourage reading and writing, most of the materials have "activity cards" posing questions. Near a science book lying on a second-grade windowsill, for instance, the card asks: "Do you think our tree...
...only wish the "friendly" gerbil that "never bites" had been "curious" enough to read your article [April 15] before biting me. OUCH...
...Mongolian gerbil (pronounced jur-bill), a ball of fluff only four inches long (plus three inches of tufted tail) that looks and leaps like a vest-pocket kangaroo. It is socially quite acceptable, has impeccable manners and irresistible charm. Its credentials are faultless: a desert species native to Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa, it is clean, odorless and friendly, eats little (sunflower seeds, lettuce, corn), excretes less (three drops of urine a day), and never bites. Besides all this, it is happy, playful, loyal, fearless, curious, and can be taught tricks...
...gerbil was brought to the U.S. for medical research eleven years ago, moved into the pet world only in the past year. Word spread through the kiddie grapevine with the help of once-a-week TV appearances on NBC's Birthday House and a plug from Barbra Streisand (who owns two) on her recent CBS special. Today gerbils are in demand from New York to Alaska. In La Grange, Ill., the Parkway Pet Store sold 16 after putting a sign in the window. In Atlanta, the Ark Pet Shop has already sold 125, has more orders than...