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...Freshman Union and takes up formation on one side of the street, just as the real cast, fourteen men in drag--one in a scuba suit, another in an exquisite white wedding gown--pirouette down Mass. Ave. and into the den of reporters. These remarkable beauties are photographed like zoo animals and interviewed sarcastically. The little gymnasts become so excited that they start to jump up and down in tandem, forming a huge black wave on Harvard Street. Two juniors dressed as cows, complete with rubber udders, saunter onto the scene...
...unforeseen chaos ensued when some highways became paralyzed with traffic. Seemingly every car and truck that could move was pressed into carrying refugees burdened with cargo ranging from pigs to pianos. Saving livestock put unusual pressures on vehicles and roads. As the exodus progressed, the Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, just north of the flood zone, turned into a latter-day Noah's ark. For three days the zoo took in streams of animals, from household pets to ponies, donkeys, pheasants and kangaroos. Custodian Peter van der Eijk reported wearily, ``We're high and dry here, but we're completely full...
...expected a zoo," said freshman Daniel Ezra, who won his match playing as the second seed. "We've had some real battles there before...
...farmer for 18 years, Somphong got into the business of raising tigers after buying four of them from the Chiang Mai Zoo in 1990. Since then he has bred the females twice a year. He admits that his long-term goal is to persuade Thai authorities to allow him to breed tigers and sell their parts, after they die naturally, to medicine makers. A traditional-medicine specialist from Xian, China, is already seeing patients at the farm, which doubles as a clinic. So far, the Thai authorities are dead set against raising tigers for medical use. ``They hope we will...
Meanwhile, the Sriracha Farm Zoo and Resort Co. keeps expanding. Somphong hopes to earn millions of dollars from legal trade in crocodile skins and crocodile meat, which he claims is the best to be found in Thailand. He wants his tiger population to swell to 200 within a couple of years, and has opened a petting area for tiger cubs, which at three months old cuddle like house cats. The nagging question, says Leonie Vejjajiva, a founder of the Wild Animal Rescue Foundation of Thailand, is whether a petting zoo--the feeding costs alone come...