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...this is not an excerpt from the latest report on human sexual inadequacy by Masters and Johnson. It is the director of Washington's National Zoo, Theodore Reed, explaining why the capital's popular pair from Peking, the giant pandas Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing, have failed to produce offspring in three years of bumbling attempts...
Last week the zoo took matters into its own hands. Her bleating and scent marking tipped off officials that the female Ling-Ling was in heat, an event that lasts a scant five days each spring. So a team of 13, including Head Veterinarian Mitchell Bush and Anesthesiologist Michael Abramowitz of the Washington, D.C., Children's Hospital, gathered around the lady. Ling-Ling was anesthetized, then inseminated with approximately 3.2 cc of semen that had been collected from Hsing-Hsing last year and frozen. (Fresh semen had been collected from Hsing-Hsing shortly before the insemination, but the sperm...
Most students in Eliot House did not know of the proposed transfer of Hill, Edgar H. Ling '80, co-chairman of the Eliot House Committee, said yesterday...
...stop and the diabolical thump-and-shriek of disco before and after. "Shake, shake/ Shake your booty" blares forth from one of them, but not quite in time to drown out another one that is roaring out with "Ring my bell/ Ring my bell, my bell/ Ting-a-ling-a-ling." It is as though the Great God Muzak has berserked out of the dentist's office and run amuck with all his decibels exposed. Actually, the public tranquility is being regularly murdered by that handy modern convenience, the portable transistor radio. Its proliferation is nothing if not phenomenal...
...dozen restaurants devoted to authentic Hunanese cuisine in the entire U.S. The first was founded by Henry Chung in San Francisco five years ago, and almost immediately won national acclaim. In his Hunan Style Chinese Cookbook (Harmony Books; 145 pages; $10), Chung relates charming anecdotes from his native Li-ling county and introduces many worthy dishes, notably hot and sour chicken, fried asparagus in hot black bean sauce and, for breakfast, steamed thin-sliced pork with fermented black beans. Ni hao, Mr. Chung...