Word: glassing
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Call it a natural disaster. The San Diego Zoo spent $3.5 million to build a designer forest that would house five adolescent Malayan sun bears. The zookeepers planted some trees, dug a moat, launched a waterfall, even hooked up a fiber-glass tree with an electric honey dispenser. As company for their wards, they invited lion-tailed macaques, yellow-breasted laughing thrushes, orange-bellied fruit doves and Indian pigmy geese...
...cheap way to run a zoo. At the Tiger River exhibit in San Diego, that lovely gushing waterfall is part of a 72,000-gal. computerized irrigation system. A huge banyan tree has heating coils in its roots to encourage the python to uncoil near the viewing glass. Not far away, an agile cliff-springer mountain goat is contained on the assumption that it will not jump eight feet to a ledge on the moat's far side that is constructed at a precise 30 degrees angle. "But," admits architect David Rice, "nobody has told the cliff springer that...
Hwang is keenly aware of the F. Scott Fitzgerald dictum that American lives have no second acts, that youthful success leads to mid-life burnout and embitterment. A few months after M. Butterfly opened, he and avant-garde composer Philip Glass mounted 1000 Airplanes on the Roof, a multimedia oddity that proved too abstruse for the masses yet too tabloid for intellectuals; it centers on an apparent close encounter with aliens from space. In multiple productions it showed scant commercial potential. In addition to the screenplay for M. Butterfly, which Hwang will write himself, he is working on three other...
...swap that would create the world's second largest drug company. The friendly merger would be the largest so far in the current race to create globe-spanning pharmaceutical giants. The new company, with headquarters in Manhattan, would bring together such products as Bristol-Myers' Bufferin painkiller and Windex glass cleaner with Squibb's Capoten, a leading prescription formula for heart ailments...
...status of black Americans today can be characterized as a glass that is half full -- if measured by progress since 1939 -- or as a glass that is half empty -- if measured by the persisting disparities between black and white Americans since the early 1970s...