Word: gita
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...grand old?lady of the Los Angeles Zoo, beloved by employees and millions of Angelenos who periodically flocked?to the zoo to visit her. But when Gita, a 48-year-old?Asian elephant, was found dead in her enclosure Saturday morning,?tears were mixed with anger on the part of those who had been expressing concerns over Gita's health and the well-being of two other elephants living...
...said I would not be surprised if Gita was dead in six months," says veterinarian Mel Richardson, who testified last September before city officials who were considering the since-approved $39 million plan to improve the L.A. Zoo's elephant exhibit. "It's been nine months. Gita had osteomyelitis in her toes and was losing bones in her feet. She was in pain daily." Richardson,?a former veterinarian?for the San Antonio and Woodland Park zoos, had not examined Gita but had reviewed hundreds of pages of her medical records secured under the California open records law by In Defense...
...fact, Gita has been at the center of a contentious debate over whether the L.A. Zoo should continue to exhibit elephants at all. In September the 8,000-pound pachyderm, who got her exercise on early-morning strolls before the zoo opened, had state-of-the art foot surgery to relieve bone disease that had led to arthritis, which is common among elephants living in captivity. Zoo officials had optimistically declared that Gita was on her way to a full recovery...
...term I enrolled in one of the most reading-intensive courses in the Catalog: an intense seminar, the Foundation Texts of the West. Nevertheless, looking back on it, perhaps the best inspiration came not from the passionate professor, the Aeneid, or Krishna’s immortal lines in the Gita. It came from Sally...
...Core still consists of a general education in “Great Books,” Russell specialized in teaching the non-Western components of the curriculum. He has imported this emphasis into his Harvard seminars; alongside Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, and the Bible are added the Bhagavad Gita, the Lotus Sutra, and a number of sources on Zoroastrianism.Sitting in on the course and talking with a number of enrollees, one quickly gets the impression that this is an offering which consumes a large amount of Russell’s and his students’ time.It helps that Russell demands...