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...mate's neck. Soon there was a new egg in the roost. At the zoo, Bird Curator Arthur Risser and his crew eagerly monitored the incubation. Two weeks ago, one egg showed signs of movement. Subsequently, a chick managed to peck a peanut-size hole in the shell. Like mother condors in the wild, the zoo staffers tapped on the eggshell. When the chick's strength seemed almost sapped from its struggle to free itself, Keeper Cyndi Kuehler cut an opening to let the chick emerge...
...gasoline prices by 30 per gal., competitors snickered. After all, 25% of drivers buy gasoline on credit. But when Arco's volume started zooming upward, the competition quickly retaliated. Exxon and Amoco, two of the nation's largest marketers, announced a discount-for-cash policy. And Shell counterattacked by accepting credit cards from Arco holders and converting them into Shell customers...
Everything is as American as the bright red fire truck near the band shell and not far from the barbershop, sort of the way it was in Disney's home town of Marceline, Mo. When Disney conceived his California Disneyland, he strongly felt that before visitors got to Tomorrowland, Fantasyland and Frontier land, they should first pass through Main Street, which he described as "everyone's home town, the heartland of America." And so they will at Urayasu. Says Tokyo Psychologist Kazuo Shimada: "At this point, the Japanese are brimming with curiosity about America and the Americans...
...with ability. He turned his metalworker's hand to making hammered copper masks. This went on through the teens and '20s. In short, González took longer to peck his way out of the egg than any modern artist of comparable stature, and what cracked the shell and released him was his relationship to his fellow Spaniard in Paris, Picasso...
...religious war, is very professional and completely winning. Praise must go as well to Michael Allio, Christopher Moore and Deborah Wasser. But without a doubt, the big surprise in this cast is Kattrin, played by the lovely Brigit Fasolino. Her face is just right--a picture of peace, shell-shocked, ravaged, yet innocently eerie. In the very best production of this work, the character of Kattrin has been likened to Aristophanes' character Peace, who, though raped and tortured by war, remains virtuous and beautiful. Fasolino's Kattrin speaks volumes in her muteness and screams and silent scream at the close...