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Sadly for Xiang Xiang, the tough love 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...
...helicopters to evacuate the most badly wounded that morning, too strong for candles that night. The vigils would have to wait; the students grieved in the privacy of their dorms. The stately, sprawling campus of Virginia Tech was littered with broken branches; yellow police tape ribboned through a tree as if the gusts had tied it there, mourning those who would not be coming back. The locals said the winds rose to carry the angels down so they could take the children home...
...tree falls in the woods and nobody’s around, does it make a sound...
...hundreds of students began filing down the steps of the War Memorial Chapel toward the drill field. Propped against a tree with a box of unlit candles at its base, the sign wavered in the wind. Clusters of two and three students stood together in silence. Slowly they began to line up to sign the board. ?You are in our prayers. We hurt for you. We will remember you forever,' signed one mourner in silver marker. "I'm still really in disbelief," says Stiltner. The shock of the day's shootings sank in, Hess said, as he carried the sign...
...book a Broadway show or a touring show within a year to a year-and-a-half,” she says. “I don’t want a lead. I’ll take a chorus part. I’ll be a tree if I need to be a tree.”LIFE AFTER HARVARDAfter graduation, many of Harvard’s theatrically inclined alumni move to the Big Apple in order to try their luck in the New York theater scene. “There are a lot of young Harvard alumni working...