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...concern. The three-year-old, 123-lb. female has only recently been taken from the wild, yet she seems to be adjusting well to captivity. Her keeper even has hopes that she will soon be able to produce young of her own. But, he insists, Jia Jia, a giant panda, is only a "guest." If all goes well, she and her brood will be set free...
...immediate threat to the giant panda is not man but nature. In their high-altitude retreats in the remote regions of central China, giant pandas survive almost entirely on bamboo. "It's 99.9% of their diet," says George Schaller, director of the Animal Research and Conservation Center at the New York Zoological Society. Schaller has been studying the pandas in their native habitat since December 1980. Unfortunately, by a curious botanical twist, a staple of their diet, the arrow bamboo, is now undergoing one of its periodic blossomings. When this happens, once every 45 or 50 years, a whole...
...popular books, to say nothing of several scientific ones, he has shown that he can bat out complex ideas with all the grace of his childhood hero, Joe DiMaggio. His writings have won a cluster of honors, including a 1981 American Book Award for his collection of essays, The Panda's Thumb, and a 1981 National Book Critics Circle Award for The Mismeasure of Man. His latest chrestomathy reaffirms Gould's position alongside Physician-Essayist Lewis Thomas as an indispensable bridge between the "two cultures...
...hard to resist. Chicago Latin School Senior Charles Edelman, whose father is a tax attorney, has been accepted by Yale, Brown and Amherst, but is leaning toward the University of Michigan. Says Edelman: "Michigan has called, written and offered me two scholarships. They are making it look very attractive." Panda Chen, daughter of an engineer in Piedmont, Calif, has a 3.95 grade-point average and has received scholarships from five schools. She will accept $7,000 in tuition from Mills College in nearby Oakland...
This is the way things work at Ital Design. Giugiaro maintains a large engineering staff to solve functional and production problems as the design evolves. One example of this comprehensive approach, cited by Giugiaro, is the door of his Fiat Panda. The recessed door hinges are covered with plates on the outside. Giugiaro's hinges make it unnecessary for an assembler to work on the cramped inside of an auto-the outside hinges can be installed with ease...