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...Tigre. More important to nimrods who want to shoot their own fur coats, the Sarapiqui jungle is home to five different varieties of wild cat, ranging from the little margay (about the size of an overgrown Siamese) to El Tigre himself: the jaguar-third largest cat in the world (behind the true tiger and the African lion...
...duties are vague and undemanding: he sees students only when he feels like it, and he is in residence no more than a couple of months a year in the medium-sized, blue-and-white plywood dome where he and Anne live in Carbondale. It looks like an overgrown pincushion without pins. But Bucky does not mind, and does not see why anyone else should. As he once wrote in a light moment, to be sung to the tune of Home on the Range...
...magazine's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., is an overgrown Western ranch-all adobe walls and in door barbecue pits. Streams meander over the property; flowers riot in the border beds. The setting could serve as a monument to leisure living, Western style, and that is exactly what it is. In this sun-kissed journalistic keep south of San Francisco, the Western way of life is reverenced as a backyard religion because Sunset Magazine is its priest...
...Hallelujah the Hills, the work of America's Adolfas Mekas, is a gloriously funny and far-out farce about two great big overgrown boy scouts who pratfall in love with the same girl...
...Montefiore hospitals. One went to a nun, 30, herself a hospital aide. One to a water pollution expert, 42, whose eye had been blinded by lye. Two were donated to needy housewives. Another to a man of 52 whose own cornea had become overgrown with scar tissue after an injury. All of the operations were what ophthalmic surgeons call "penetrating transplants" or "full-thickness grafts," for which fresh corneas must be used within 72 hours of the donor's death. When only the outermost layer of the cornea is needed, for a split-thickness graft...