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...FEAST. Hungry Iraqi soldiers have stormed the Kuwait zoo, killing and eating dozens of gazelles, antelope and other mammals. The World Society for the Protection of Animals has reports that some of the zoo's larger predators are roaming the streets and that a child was killed by a lion...
...unrest led the Saudi government to begin a major public-works program in the Shi'ite region, which has always produced the lion's share of modern Saudi Arabia's oil wealth and received little in return. The situation further improved in 1985 when the brutal administration in the province of the bin Jaluwi family was replaced by Mohammed bin Fahd, a former businessman and a . son of the King. Still, Ashura continues to be a time when grievances surface: demonstrations were put down violently again in late 1985. Just last year scores of Shi'ites mourning the death...
...financial gains that go along with coeducation may come at the price of women's achievement. A recent study of Wheaton College, which went coed in 1988, showed that the school's men tended to get the lion's share of attention from faculty. "You lose something in the process of going coed," says Peter Mirijanian, spokesman for the Women's College Coalition. "You can't have it both ways...
...Afropop Worldwide, which is buoyed by the wide knowledge, melodious voice and infectious enthusiasm of host Georges Collinet, a Cameroon native. The program explores contemporary African music and its influence on pop sounds. Among performers recently featured: Brazil's Gilberto Gil, the Ivory Coast's Alpha Blondy and the "Lion of Zimbabwe," , Thomas Mapfumo...
...economics of pro sports. Major-league baseball's billion-dollar TV pact is an unspoken issue looming behind the current baseball lockout. "The television revenue isn't being produced by the owners," says Donald Fehr, head of the players' union. "It's being produced by the players. The lion's share of the television money ought to go to the players." With the N.F.L.'s just completed TV deal, clubs will be making money even before they sell a single admission ticket. "The rights fees fueled a salary explosion in baseball," says agent Leigh Steinberg. "Now things will explode...