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Call it the Year of the Panda. In 2006 a record 31 pandas were born in captivity in China, triple the number in 2000. Zoo Atlanta welcomed a baby panda too: Mei Lan (Chinese for "Atlanta Beauty") was born Sept. 6. "The giant panda's safe," said Zhang Hemin, head of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda...
...mate? Mei Lan was a product of artificial insemination. But conservationists are using other methods to encourage natural breeding. Unpopular females have been scented with the urine of popular rivals, so that a male thinks he's mating with a more attractive female. Zhang has shown them videos of pandas breeding in the wild--basically, panda porn. He even gave one male Viagra--which didn't work so well. "We'll never do that again," he said. "The panda was excited for 24 hours...
...Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation” was enough to make me spill coffee all over myself with glee. And they’ve even made it child-friendly by replacing the adult version’s homicidal, gun-toting bear with a cuddly, cupid-like archer of a panda. Combining small children’s great love of grammar with their fondness for punctuation-based punch lines? Genius...
...sophomore at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, says she cut out a cross-stitch pattern from an old apron and combined it with lace doilies and an embroidered pink fabric to make a knee-length skirt. Maria Azarraga, 18, who lives in Leesburg, Ga., sewed together parts of a panda-print sweater she bought on eBay with a second sweater from Goodwill and some faux white fur she found at a fabric store to make a black-and-white, hooded wool "bomber" jacket. When she posted pictures to the Sew Hip community on the site LiveJournal.com in early November...
...kind of nurses rarely seen outside of music videos and horror posters is welcomed to the black parade. He gets a variety of fabulous prizes, such as what appears to be an extremely dour photo-op with the band, eye-socket-blackening makeup which makes him look more panda-like than dead, and a medal which presumably says, “Congratulations! You’re dead!,” although too small for the viewer to read. In the end, however, he’s left wandering alone in the wilderness. Only the really cool dead people?...