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...thick bamboo forest, making him the first giant panda bred in captivity to be released by Chinese scientists into the wild. Although he had received some survival training, Xiang Xiang soon found he had been left in a very rough neighborhood. In late December forest wardens noticed from his radio-collar tracker that he wasn't moving. The bear had been bitten by a wild panda in a fight for territory; Xiang Xiang was eventually found, treated and sent back into the wild...
...backfired. In a subsequent encounter with a woods-wise cousin, he tried to escape by climbing a tree. Evidently that wasn't part of survival training: the bear fell and, from what rangers could gather, probably broke a leg. Rangers haven't been able to find Xiang Xiang, whose radio collar may have malfunctioned when he fell. Still, Zhang Hemin, director of the Wolong center, insists his charge had to be banished. "We did not want to keep Xiang Xiang because that would have shown our experiment had failed," he says...
...RECENT YEARS SHE SHONE brightly as a National Medal of Arts honoree and elegant, tireless philanthropist. But the long career of effervescent singer-actress Kitty Carlisle Hart spanned media from film (the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera, Woody Allen's Radio Days) to stage (On Your Toes) to opera (Die Fledermaus, her 1966 debut at the Met). Hart, whose husband was playwright Moss Hart, was best known for her 1956-67 stint as a lively celebrity panelist on TV's To Tell the Truth...
...show. For five years (until he and Joe Hockey, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, finally exhausted the gig last week), Rudd was exposed to, and thus became one of the few M.P.s known by, the politically disengaged: busy mothers and retirees turned off by issues-driven AM radio. In the show's whitebread TV family, Rudd established himself as a good sport with a sense of humor. If he appears at ease at the silly end of the media circus or slips now and then into the voice of the common man ("Fair shake of the sauce bottle...
...After chewing up the first week talking about himself, Rudd traversed the country on a "Listening Tour" to hear the voices on the street. He got immediate results. In Bundaberg, only hours into the jaunt, Rudd told ABC local radio that he'd met a bloke in town who was worried about fairness in the workplace. "He's not concerned about himself," he said, "but he's concerned about his grandkids-to use his term-grandkids being guinea pigs in the new system of industrial relations Mr. Howard has set up." Only the previous week, Rudd had told listeners...