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...gorillas' patch of untamed forest is, like the stadium, located squarely in the Bronx. Recently built into the southwest corner of the sprawling Bronx Zoo, the 6.5-acre range is a magnificent exercise in environmental illusion. The leaves the gorillas are munching are willow, native to the U.S.; the strangler fig is really catalpa, a local species; the understory plant is butterbur, native to Japan; the fallen tree is made out of metal, mesh and layers of epoxy; and a few hundred yards from the recorded sounds of hornbills and monkeys, Latin music blares from a picnic on a sweltering...
...Domna the cafeteria checker had to forcibly usher them out of Annenberg. Ridiculous, we murmured among ourselves. Ridiculous, all of it. It's a College, after all. It's Harvard, people whispered in my ears. It's Harvard College, I retorted, feeling a bit like an animal at the zoo, biting the hands that feed...
After graduation, Bush will work for AnswerThink Consulting in Burlington, Mass. He will be putting the skills he learned in three computer science classes to use building databases. He says that he also hopes to volunteer at a zoo such as the Franklin Park Zoo or the New England Zoo. In terms of future career plans, Bush says that in a couple of years he hopes to get a degree in zoology or possibly an MBA. He says that ultimately he hopes to work with animals or computers in a zoo...
Ewing says that 15 to 20 years from now Bush "will either be a good, hardworking zoo keeper, or else King Kong Bushman of some professional wrestling association...
...Palestinian conservation crew to put up birdhouses in the West Bank. Together they had the wonderful idea of enlisting the help of children--from both sides of the Middle East divide. In February, 50 Arab kids from Jericho and 30 Jewish kids from Jerusalem converged at Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo to learn to make the birdhouses and get to know one another. Coexistence didn't come easily. A Jewish fifth-grader, tears of frustration flowing down her cheeks, rushed to her teacher. An Arab boy wouldn't give her a turn hammering nails into a box they were supposed...