What started as an exotic bird collection in the early 1970s morphed over time into the Wildlife World Zoo, an operation that reported revenues of $4 million in 2007. Zoo owner and chief executive Mickey Ollson grew up on a hobby farm in East Phoenix

Alex Bends an Elbow - Egypt Today
A newcomer to Alexandria s Spitfire Bar is greeted with two questions: What do you want to drink? and Where are you from? The second question dictates what kind of music they ll put on. The man most often asking the question is Hassan

Blackboards and bananas: Museums teach science to a society that can - International Herald Tribune
JERSEY CITY, New Jersey : Three or four times a day, a banana shows up at the Liberty Science Center and complains about a pain in its side. And that means it’s time for some visiting kids to dress up like surgeons and scrub nurses, take a scalpel

Kory Ross dreams about rain forests: He wants to work in one and live in one after he graduates from Florida Gulf Coast University. At least that s what he told his mom when he was a child growing up in Tampa. After enrolling at FGCU three years

Senior moments - Vallejo Times-Herald
Taj, a 68-year old Asian elephant lifts back her trunk and opens her mouth at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo earlier this month. (David M. Barreda/MediaNews Group) Sixty-eight-year-old Taj likes to nap in the pool, resting her nose on the far

Island paradise hours away - Daily Oklahoman
American currency is widely accepted and is interchangeable with the Bahamian dollar. In September through May the temperature averages 70 to 75 degrees; the rest of the year is warmer with temperatures between 80 and 85. Nighttime temperatures

In which I attempt a double-triple: back-to-back meals at Michelin three-star restaurants. I look over Bill’s shoulder to see what he’s pointing at. “Fingerprint cyphoma, very rare,” he writes on his slate. I swim around him for a better look
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