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...Georgia the proceeds from arbitrage have amounted to as much as $40 million a year. Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young points out that the city has been able to lower the cost of renovating its zoo by some $3 million by using the now banned technique. On a nationwide basis, the numbers mushroom: the total value of outstanding bonds issued by approximately 40,000 state and local jurisdictions is at least $729 billion...
...Before releasing him on $50,000 bail last week in Washington, U.S. Magistrate Jean Dwyer ordered the art historian to stay out of the National Archives, the Library of Congress and the National Gallery. "I have nothing else to do," Mount complained somewhat pathetically. Shot back Dwyer: "Try the zoo. Don't push your luck, Mr. Mount...
Great players such as Mickey Mantle have written autobiographies detailing drunken debauchery so disgusting that they cannot help but attribute their "successes" in the saloon to the same prowess that makes them winning athletes. Sparky Lyle, in The Bronx Zoo, uses the same tone of excitement to describe big strikeouts as he does to chronicle his favorite habits: sitting naked on cakes brought to the clubhouse and shagging flyballs during pre-game practice with his pants unzipped...
Panda mania ! All New York turns out for China' s newest ambassadors, Ling Ling and Yong Yong, as they settle into the Bronx Zoo...
...city that has pandas on permanent exhibit, schoolchildren send them yearly valentines. When the female (also named Ling Ling) fell ill in 1982, she received thousands of get-well cards; some admirers tearfully called for the latest word on her condition. China lent a pair to the Los Angeles Zoo in conjunction with the 1984 Olympics; attendance more than doubled, and pandamaniacs endured three-hour waits. San Francisco's zoo, where the couple went next, saw attendance jump...