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...their lack of distinction, and you have a recipe for disaster. Cassavetes built his directorial reputation on the way he worked with actors, and particularly on his creative use of improvisation. But the liabilities of letting bad actors improvise are obvious. It's sort of like building a zoo without walls--you end up with shit all over the place...
...second armed animal robbery case I've seen in 21 years. We once caught a guy who was using a big German shepherd to scare money out of his victims." The snake, which police found sleeping under a nearby porch, was turned over to the Lincoln Park Zoo. The snake was thus freed, after a fashion; only its master must still face the scales of justice...
...emphasize rehabilitation by counseling rather than imprisonment (though in some cases parents may be fined for their children's transgressions). There are exceptions, though. Last year two technical school students were sent to a labor camp for seven years after they stabbed to death three of the Moscow Zoo's kangaroos...
...small children during the week and the problem of entertaining them on weekends. He imagines owning an enormous building that would make life simple for fathers in his position: "A place of swimming pool, badminton and tennis courts, movie theaters, restaurants, soda fountains, batting cages, a zoo, an art gallery, a circus, aquarium, science museum, hundreds of restrooms, two always in sight, everything in the tender charge of women trained in first aid and Montessori, no uniforms, their only style warmth and cheer...
Last week the zoo took matters into its own hands. Her bleating and scent marking tipped off officials that the female Ling-Ling was in heat, an event that lasts a scant five days each spring. So a team of 13, including Head Veterinarian Mitchell Bush and Anesthesiologist Michael Abramowitz of the Washington, D.C., Children's Hospital, gathered around the lady. Ling-Ling was anesthetized, then inseminated with approximately 3.2 cc of semen that had been collected from Hsing-Hsing last year and frozen. (Fresh semen had been collected from Hsing-Hsing shortly before the insemination, but the sperm...