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...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 mountainside of bamboo may erupt in flowers, scatter seeds and then perish. The bamboo will regrow in a few years to sufficient size...
...internal dispute of the PLO has thrown the fattest twist into Lebanon's now standard turmoil, and has already claimed at least 250 lives--many of them civilian. Backed by Syria, Palestinians opposing Yasser Arafat have pushed the guerrilla leader to his last stronghold outside Tripoli...
...supposed winners from the reform--Indian and colored voters--are now placed in an unpleasant buffer position. Many of their leaders have urged a boycott of the segregated chambers of Parliament, while others are more willing to lay down for their former oppressors. So a new twist is added to apartheid...
...second but the slow parts are played lightly and even alluded to to keep the show moving along. A play with only five characters and five murders has a problem surviving anything but a bloody depressing finale. Levin provides an out; it is played well, adding a twist to make sure the audience leaves laughing and able to speculate on what happens next. That mixture of laughter and uncertainty make Deathtrap audiences easy prey...
...compulsory military conscription, thus widening the political base for white South African rule. When the inevitable arms struggle occurs, the apartheid regime could call on a greater percentage of the population to take up arms. Brown-and white-skinned individuals would fight together against Blacks, adding a new twist to the continuing apartheid theme of divide and rule...