Jean Stafford has defined the role of the novelist as that of telling the truth: "the problem is how to tell the truth so persuasively and vividly that our readers are taken in and made to believe th...
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Jean Wilson Stafford, a brilliant practitioner of the craft of fiction, has few equals among the post-World War II generation of novelists and short-story writers who worked within the literary modes ...
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The tiger that killed a
visitor and mauled two others at the San Francisco Zoo this
week may have simply scaled its exhibit's wall to attack the
three, a top U.S. tiger e...
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Berlin (dpa) - Knut, the cuddly polar that became an international
star in March this year, has turned into a 60-kilogram heavyweight
and needs to go on diet, Berlin Zoo vet...
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A jaguar's lethal attack on a keeper at the Denver Zoo has renewed the debate over whether big predators should be kept in captivity in the first place.Ashlee Pfaff, 28, died Saturday after she was...
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A jaguar's lethal attack on a keeper at the Denver Zoo has renewed the debate over whether big predators should be kept in captivity in the first place.Ashlee Pfaff, 28, died Saturday after she was...
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Officials in the central German city of Erfurt called for stronger laws Monday to protect the rights of animals amid allegations that workers at the city's zoo killed some goats, sheep, pigs and ot...
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There's the Panda Express fast-food chain. Jing Jing, a mascot for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The forthcoming animated movie, Kung Fu Panda. Even a Mexican rock band named after the cuddly bea...
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A South Korean research team said Monday it has successfully
cloned a pair of endangered wolves in October 2005 and that the
animals have been growing up without any problems.
The team, le...
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Rotterdam (dpa) - Four people were injured after gorilla Bokito
escaped at Rotterdam's Blijdorp Zoo Friday.
The famous zoo was packed with people on family outings w...
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Amsterdam (dpa) - Blijdorp zoo will build an extra fence between
the ape island and the visitors area in Rotterdam zoo, zoo officials
said Wednesday.
Blijdorp...
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