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NORFOLK, Virginia: Nyla, the Virginia Zoo's only hippopotamus, died of a bowel blockage on Sunday after she ate a racquetball tossed into her pen by a visitor. Zookeepers were mystified by Nyla's death until an autopsy of the 4,300-pound hippo showed that she had a 2-inch rubber ball blocking her intestinal passageway. Though authorities knew the hippo was suffering some kind of obstruction, they did not perform surgery, fearing she would die during the procedure. Nyla, 31, had lived at the zoo for more than 20 years after spending her youth as part...
...discovered there was no electricity in the morning because some people had electric alarm clocks," said Carolyn M. Fast '98, who is a teacher for Partners for Empowering Neighborhoods (PEN) and also lives in Winthrop. "We almost all missed teaching but some people had battery alarm clocks...
...waiting center set up in the auditorium of Grady Memorial Hospital, a mile from the park, shaken relatives and friends of victims gathered in search of information about their loved ones. From time to time, a Red Cross nurse would appear and read out names written in blue ballpoint pen on her rubber gloves. Much of her news was reasonably good: most patients had only minor injuries. Meanwhile, those waiting traded stories about the night. "It didn't seem like a real bomb to me," said John, a young British man who was crying as he waited for news...
...Dick Lamm presided over the dinner, he'd pull out a pen and a tiny calculator, turn the check over and begin a tally. Don't forget his background: he's not just a lawyer, he's a certified public accountant. "O.K., Ed," he'd begin, "did you have a second scotch or just...
...enforced for all jailed intellectuals) was deadly serious, and at his hard-labor camp on the island of Buru some prisoners who violated it were executed. Pramoedya's response was to compose his novels orally and recite them to other prisoners. Eventually a sympathetic general allowed him paper and pen, and then a typewriter. From his own memory and what his prison mates could recall, he copied down the novels that would shame the Suharto dictatorship by taking on the name of its island prison and give the stubborn writer a reputation as Indonesia's Solzhenitsyn. And thus...