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...animals featured. Founded by Louis Agassiz in 1859 at the height of the craze to classify all of nature, the museum set out to acquire a specimen of everything in the natural world. The result is an incredible, albeit slightly dusty, collection--from the duck-billed platypus to the yak--displayed in wooden and glass cases under fluorescent light...
...yak is a prehistoric cabbage; of that...
...will introduce children to the cartoon villain Dr. Carbon on Captain Planet. Producer Paul Witt (Golden Girls) is developing a three-hour all-star "practical guide to saving the planet"; Witt hopes all three networks will air it simultaneously. In September a medley of pop stars will shoot Yakety Yak, a music video about recycling. Its refrain: "Yakety yak, take it back...
...imminent as 30,000 steadfast Tibetans rose up against Chinese rule, the Dalai Lama slipped out of his summer palace dressed as a humble soldier and set off across the highest mountains on earth. Two weeks later, suffering from dysentery and on the back of a dzo, a hybrid yak, the "Holder of the White Lotus" rode into exile in India...
Meanwhile, the counterfeiters have no shortage of substitutes. Some weavers remove the coarser fibers from camel hair to make it feel more like cashmere. Others use yak hair. Says Spilhaus: "The cheating is limited only by the imagination of the cheaters...