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...rules make the importer assume the burden of proof. All but a few of the world's thousands of vertebrate species are considered to be "potentially dangerous" until the importer shows otherwise. But laboratories, zoos and the pet industry will not suffer unduly; the new rules award carte blanche visas to an elite of "low risk" animals. These include 400 kinds of fish (mostly tropical species for collectors), 60 birds (mainly game fowl), 43 mammals (lab monkeys, plus zebras, aardvarks and other common zoo animals), and two amphibians (the horned and dwarf-clawed frogs). The result will be less...
...poodle, a pointer, a Saint Bernard (caskless), a cat, a ferret and a cougar named Rajah; to defray Rajah's $1,000 acquisition costs, say the Cranks, they had to "eat beans for months." (They have since been forced by neighborhood pressure to give Rajah to a local zoo.) The potentates of petdom may well be the 65 dogs whose meals and Medicare are assured by the will of Quaker State Oil Heiress Eleanor Ritchey; she left them $14 million and a 180-acre pad in Deerfield Park, Fla. The dogs may dwindle, but their canine capital does...
Says Mayor Gary Porter: "We're talking about putting a couple of hundred thousand dollars into the arts, theaters and museums. You can't do that when times are hard." The city is building a new zoo, an agriculture coliseum, a $3.5 million art museum, a $2 million Indian culture center and a planetarium...
...smashing apart nuclei of atoms in huge accelerators. Most of the particles live for only a tiny fraction of a second before they decay into more stable atomic components Like electrons. Until now, all of these particles have occupied predictable places in what physicists jocularly call their subnuclear "zoo." The puzzling new discovery is a total misfit...
...with other couples, listening to records (Horowitz likes Wagner), or an occasional trip to the movies. The sound of Horowitz's Steinway is never heard at night. He practices ("I prefer to call it rehearsing") regularly every afternoon for an hour and a half, often with the Horowitz zoo-one poodle and four cats-in attendance. His regimen includes a strict diet offish, fowl and vegetables, and it shows: at 5 ft. 9% in., he is rarely more than a pound or two from his preferred weight...