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...bones in an okra patch lead to a prehistoric zoo...
...finds: saber-toothed tigers, four-tusked mastodons, a giant camel some 18 ft. high, an extinct raccoon as big as a bear, various ancient horses and dogs -and the Carcharodon megalodon, a relative of the great white shark. As Ron Love puts it, "They had one hell of a zoo here...
...National Aquarium. Once doomed to flounder, it received $400,000 and a new perch at the National Zoo...
...given the world a cast of characters as varied as the diabolical Dr. Caligari and the sultry chanteuse of Blue Angel. But none was ever quite like the film heroine that has recently drawn West German audiences to the movies in droves-Christiane F.: We Children from the Zoo Station. The protagonist starts off as a teen-age prostitute and drug addict who haunts the squalid fringes of West Germany's affluent society. On the screen, when she is not listening to David Bowie tapes in the labyrinthine subway corridors of the station near Berlin's zoo...
...dress and make pilgrimages to her former haunts. Complains Wolf Heckmann, West Berlin's drug commissioner: "The book and film have increased interest in drugs in this city. Kids who come to visit used to ask to see the Berlin Wall. Now they want to see the Zoo Station...