The Sanford Dispatch

While on a break from college, I went to the zoo in Saint Louis, Missouri with a close friend whom I was visiting, and saw the chimpanzee exhibit. I have never considered myself a staunch Darwinist, nor a fanatical humanizer of the animal kingdom, but there is something about the experience of looking into the…

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Since I have been tall enough to overfill a standard coach airline seat (not much of an accomplishment in the economy of the twenty-first century), I have strongly disliked flying. I do not, however, hate flying enough never to do it, so as to miss out on the delight of traveling or seeing close friends…

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