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Browne also holds an interest in the social and cultural history of zoos. His love for zoos began during his childhood in England; he grew up next to the London Zoo...
...scale of one __ 21. He's pledged $10 million to the construction of a D.C. visitors' center 23. It was recently remanned 24. Civil War vets' org. 26. ID card datum 27. Miller's __ from the Bridge 28. China has tentatively agreed to lend two to the National Zoo 29. 32-Across, to Birch 30. Nullify 31. They've announced that they'll stop rewarding or fining HMO doctors 32. Fall back 33. Pokes fun at 35. Extinct kin of the kiwi 37. The People's Court figure 38. "Very funny!" 41. Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Century...
...risk." There's mileage in the poignancy. The vice president (a candidate now running a curious race against himself: Al Gore the Plausible November Winner in a fight to the death against his evil twin, Al Gore the Truly Unbearable) scored one for Unbearable Al by turning the zoo shooting into a demagogue moment. (Considering the permissive Texas gun atmosphere, George W. Bush practically pulled the trigger on those kids himself! So Gore suggested...
...just after Easter, some Washington kid who was either a young warrior out to prove himself, or else merely an angry boy like me - or both, perhaps - has let fly, not with rocks but with 9 mm bullets, at the edge of the National Zoo, and wounded seven children at the end of a traditional African-American family day at the zoo...
...shooting of seven youths at Washington's National Zoo this week was met with terror in the nation's capital. And when a black youth, 16-year-old Antoine Jones, was arrested Tuesday for the shooting, there was little public opposition to the DA's decision to charge him as as an adult. But could such a move have been a racist act? Maybe. On Wednesday, researchers released the most comprehensive report ever to study racial disparities in punishing youth offenders, and its findings have opened lawmakers' eyes across the nation. The study, titled "And Justice for Some," was sponsored...