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...looking for a criminal class in the animal kingdom, look no further than the higher male primate. Gorilla males coolly murder infants fathered by other males to free up nursing mothers for breeding; orangutans will resort to rape if their mating overtures are rebuffed; rival gangs of chimpanzees may wage bloody border wars to protect their turf or enlarge their harems. And the evolutionary big brother of all these creatures, the human male, has a rap sheet that's too long to contemplate...
...ridiculed, to their regret, when the Republicans ran on the Contract with America two years ago. Gone are any grand liberal schemes for redistributing wealth and re-engineering society. In their place is Families First, an agenda Gephardt calls "modest, realistic and achievable," and Republicans blast as election-year gorilla dust. The greatest testament to the House Democrats' new, centrist course is its embrace of the G.O.P. goal of balancing the budget by 2002--something many House Democrats continue to consider an unnecessary and thankless pursuit...
...GORILLA OF AMERICA'S DREAMS...
When a baby gorilla named Cenzoo flew first class to Denver last April, it was no accident that reporters swarmed the tarmac to meet the plane. The Denver Zoo had trumpeted the airborne ape's arrival as part of a publicity blitz for the July 30 opening of its Primate Panorama, which will house 200 animals on seven nature-like acres. Denver isn't alone in putting its best paw forward to lure more visitors. Attendance at the nation's animal houses has posted meager gains of late, as rival amusements have drawn customers away. So zoos are stressing such...
...opens with 1,500 rooms and 97,000 sq. ft. of casino space, and a promenade with a handsomely designed World's Fair theme. By year's end Stupak hopes to have completed an additional 1,000 rooms, a retail mall, a giant pool and a King Kong-size gorilla ride--a 70-ft.-high mechanical ape that will climb up the building with happily terrified passengers inside...