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...through this summer's blackouts: if a business can prove it needs electricity for public safety, the state utilities commission can give it an exemption and keep the juice flowing. That loophole has prompted some 9,000 applications ranging from the reasonable, such as one from the San Diego Zoo?electrified fences make good zoos?to the ridiculous, including those from liposuction clinics and taco stands. The Norbert Wabnig Cheese Store of Beverly Hills has applied because, says Shivon Ryan, cheeses are "perishables and require refrigeration." (And who knows how many Angelenos might perish without goat cheese?) Sick...
...sometimes even a star has trouble getting what she wants. First, says Stone, the zoo sent its own medics; then a fire engine arrived, and then paramedics wanted to take them to a hospital that had no trauma ward. When the apologetic--and panicky--director of the zoo, Manuel Mollinedo, arrived at the hospital, Stone says she told him, "Look, this is all we want from you: we don't want you to do any sensationalized press, and we want you to move the animal into quarantine. "So the first thing the zoo did was a fund raiser with...
...zoo has canceled behind-the-scenes visits to the Reptile House and issued a statement saying it "showed poor judgment" in the incident. Bronstein is on the mend. The dragon has not yet hired representation...
...action films that mix animation with furry machines. In the wake of Dr. Dolittle and Stuart Little come DR. 2 and Cats & Dogs. Is the Dolittle sequel obvious and puerile? Hey, does a bear fart in the bathroom? The Eddie Murphy movie is like a wacky trip to the zoo; the laughs (such as they are) come from seeing how the computer can make animals do things--talk, dance, behave badly--that used to require a trainer with a sharp stick...
...Beset by such seemingly unstoppable forces, the future looks very dark indeed for orangutans. So dark that even a primatologist like the affable Robert Shumaker of the National Zoo in Washington, who takes evident pride in his scientific objectivity, is overwhelmed by the sheer finality of the end they face. "My wife is six months pregnant and the idea that I may have to tell my son that I saw it happen, that we let this happen, we let them just disappear...