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...people," said one employee. The 500 patients at the Edward J. Meyer Memorial Hospital crowded a little closer so that some 2,000 unexpected visitors could find places to sleep. Near the city zoo, residents saw a strange sight befitting the arctic scene: reindeer roaming in their backyards. The herd had escaped from the zoo by simply walking across a snow-packed moat...
Over at Neiman-Marcus, Santa's Dallas helpers noted that Bicentennial and bison had bisyllabic echoes, so why not make this the Year of the Buffalo? They have. In honor of Bicen bison and togetherness, N-M is offering a small herd of trophies ranging from rolls of 40 uncirculated buffalo nickels-minted in 1938, the last year the bison was seen on coins-at $450 each, to "nearly lifesize" stuffed synthetic bison for $700. The boffo gift for buffalo buffs: live male and female calves ($11,750 the pair) from "the first certified 100% pure-bred buffalo herd...
...sharp, we set out at convoy speed of 60 m.p.h. to accommodate the slowest vehicle, a bus carrying troops to the "operational area" near the Mozambique border. Two machine gun-mounted Toyota pickups cruised front and rear, while a third rode herd, keeping the cars spaced far enough apart to avoid offering a tempting target. Aboard the radio-equipped trucks were a dozen police in camouflage gear, toting high-powered Belgian automatic rifles. A few also carried Israeli-made Uzi submachine guns...
...eight-county region of eastern South Dakota that is the center of the livestock business, fully 75% of the herd has already been sold off. Although cattlemen have been losing as much as $150 on every head, cash receipts so far have postponed widespread financial disaster. But the three-year dry spell, which has also affected large areas of Minnesota, Wisconsin, northern Michigan, Nebraska and Iowa (TIME, July 26), is now pushing ranchers to the end of their credit lines. Leland Sivertsen, for example, has been trying, without much luck, to get emergency money from the Farmers Home Administration...
Divided into castes that include workers, soldiers and immature young, ants carry out a wide variety of organized activities. Ordinary garden ants herd aphids, which they milk for their sweet nectar. Some species of ants farm, tending crops of tiny fungi in their underground chambers; others take and keep slaves from rival ant colonies. Species like the driver ants of Africa and the army ants of South America conduct military campaigns with a precision that any general would envy, advancing in columns protected by soldiers over routes carefully scouted by advance parties. Ants are also accomplished architects; African termites...