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Hippo Population Threatened in Burundi Nov 3, 2003
..."They've killed another hippo, and it's up to you to tell people to stop this
poaching," cried the Frenchman who has lived in Burundi for 25 years. ... (Newsday)
Hippo Population Threatened in Burundi Nov 3, 2003
...`They've killed another hippo, and it's up to you to tell people to stop this
poaching,'' cried the Frenchman who has lived in Burundi for 25 years. ... (Guardian, UK)
Hippo Population Threatened in Burundi Nov 3, 2003
There is always hippo meat stashed away in the refrigerators of good restaurants
in Bujumbura, and you will always get it if you ask for it," he said. ... (ABC News)
Hippo Population Threatened in Burundi Nov 3, 2003
...`There is always hippo meat stashed away in the refrigerators of good restaurants
in Bujumbura, and you will always get it if you ask for it,'' he said. ... (Guardian, UK)
Zanu PF Youths Invade Hippo Pools Oct 24, 2003
In a move likely to dent the country's tourism prospects, Zanu PF youths from Shamva
this week invaded Hippo Pools Wilderness Camp forcing booked clients to ... (AllAfrica.com, Africa)
Hearts heavy over hippo Oct 21, 2003
...still entertain visitors. Zookeepers had noticed a change in the 24-year-old
hippo's behavior over the past two months. Her eating ... (Denver Post, CO)
SUPREME SURVIVORS 10 Nov 2003
...at Xasini Pan; the hollow Gozoba baobab tree, named after a Bushman who went to
draw water from its centre, but fell in and drowned; a 10,000-year-old hippo ... (The Times (subscription), UK)
Redo the zoo right 10 Nov 2003
We can't even bear to go into the hippo house any more and be witness to its squalor,
not to mention the deplorable living conditions of the great cats and the ... (Salt Lake Tribune, UT)
Timeless, sturdy and fun, to boot 10 Nov 2003
Answer: Alligator, crocodile, calf, ostrich, lizard, stingray, kangaroo,
various snakes, hippo, water buffalo, frog, shark, bison. ... (Contra Costa Times, CA)
Hippo Population Threatened in Burundi Nov 3, 2003
...`They've killed another hippo, and it's up to you to tell people to stop this
poaching,'' cried the Frenchman who has lived in Burundi for 25 years. ... (Guardian, UK)
Hippo Population Threatened in Burundi Nov 3, 2003
...`There is always hippo meat stashed away in the refrigerators of good restaurants
in Bujumbura, and you will always get it if you ask for it,'' he said. ... (Guardian, UK)
Hippo Population Threatened in Burundi Nov 3, 2003
..."They've killed another hippo, and it's up to you to tell people to stop this
poaching," cried the Frenchman who has lived in Burundi for 25 years. ... (Newsday)
Hippo has paddlers in a piddle Oct 15, 2003
Johannesburg - A hippo has forced organisers to dramatically alter the course for
the South African K1 River Canoeing championships this weekend, which will be ... (News24, South Africa)
Zanu PF Youths Invade Hippo Pools Oct 24, 2003
In a move likely to dent the country's tourism prospects, Zanu PF youths from Shamva
this week invaded Hippo Pools Wilderness Camp forcing booked clients to ... (AllAfrica.com, Africa)
Hearts heavy over hippo Oct 21, 2003
...still entertain visitors. Zookeepers had noticed a change in the 24-year-old
hippo's behavior over the past two months. Her eating ... (Denver Post, CO)
Briefly in Topeka Nov 9, 2003
The Big Cats exhibit is under construction on the east side of the zoo,
across from the new hippo exhibit scheduled to be open soon. ... (Topeka Capital Journal, KS)
Russian zoo fights for survival Nov 9, 2003
It had only four surviving animals after the city was stormed by Soviet troops
during World War II - a deer, a badger, a donkey and an injured hippo. ... (BBC News, UK)
Andy's holding up the grocery line Nov 8, 2003
That means I can pull out a wad of the Monopoly-like bills and buy enough stamps
to mail a hippo to Oregon without inconveniencing a postal worker, but if I ... (Richmond Times Dispatch, VA)
Weakening greenback spurs Interfresh Oct 23, 2003
HIPPO Valley Estates Limited (Hippo), another agri-processor plagued by land acquisition-spawned
disputes, has reported no progress as far as the wrangle ... (Financial Gazette, Zimbabwe)
TVs and programs going high-def Oct 27, 2003
Now that there's more high-def to watch, Tony Hazapis, the owner of Hippo's, said
not only are sales are up, but people are also starting to appreciate what ... (Capital News 9, NY)
Stocks Fail to Sustain Rebound Nov 3, 2003
...would impact on profits. On Thursday, shares opened soft with Radar,
Pelhams and Hippo, all heading lower. Truworths was also reported ... (AllAfrica.com, Africa)
Capacity of Nigeria's Natural Environment to Support Life Under ... Nov 4, 2003
These include The Ibadan malimbe, the Anambra waxbill, the Jos indigo Bird, The
White-throated monkey, the Sclater's guenon, the Niger Delta pigmy hippo and ... (AllAfrica.com, Africa)
Truncated farewell to elephants with pink slips Nov 6, 2003
...a sign, "our female Nile hippopotamus, Peaches, has moved to the Riverbanks Zoo in
Columbia, South Carolina, where she is living outdoors with their male hippo ... (Baltimore Sun, MD)
GNP announces drastic reform measures Nov 3, 2003
The current local district chapter system, often called a 'money-eating hippo,'
is the main source of high-cost, low-efficiency politics," Choe said during a ... (Korea Herald, South Korea)
Hutto's Old Tyme Days festival Oct 18, 2003
It's the biggest birthday bash of the year and it's for an 11-year-old,
Henrietta the hippo. Legend has it the first hippo came ... (News 8 Austin, TX)
Hungry Hippos Kill Three in Gwembe Nov 3, 2003
...area. In another development, a senior village headman in Chibuwe ward
was seriously injured after being attacked by a hippo. Headman ... (AllAfrica.com, Africa)
Be wise with your water Oct 22, 2003
Fit a water-saving Hippo device in your toilet cistern, which saves
about two litres per flush. A free Hippo can be ordered by ... (Reading Chronicle, UK)
UNM Area Loses a 27-Year-Old Restaurant Nov 5, 2003
...onion rings. The new Rex's is going into the space once occupied by
Hippo Ice Cream across from the University of New Mexico. The ... (ABQ Journal (subscription), NM)
Fancy drinks wash over area Nov 5, 2003
Around the corner at The Blue Hippo on Granby Street, the barkeep uses everything
from edible orchids to olives stuffed with roasted garlic to bananas and ... (Hampton Roads Daily Press, VA)
Spitting image Nov 6, 2003
...to Plato. For the fourth-century bishop of Hippo had a most wonderful
insight—that the image of God is a trinitarian image. We ... (World Magazine)
Simple tastes for neighborhood friend Oct 26, 2003
As if he were visualizing the operation, Headen answered, "If you cut
that hippo up just right, I bet it would be just like pork.". ... (The Birmingham News, AL)
LITTLE MONSTERS MAKE THE SCENE AT MASH Nov 6, 2003
...said. Other attractions included Laugh Works clowns, Bippo the Hippo,
the Fire Department Smokehouse and Audubon Zoo Bugmobile. ... (Times Picayune, LA)
Public picks up the tab Oct 22, 2003
...parking, room service, in-room movies, tips to bellmen and housekeepers, and meals
at such pricey restaurants in Norfolk and Virginia Beach as The Blue Hippo ... (Richmond Times Dispatch, VA)
Thursday 16th October 2003 Oct 16, 2003
The average wash uses 95 litres, but a full load uses less water than two
half loads. Fit a water saving Hippo device in your toilet cistern. ... (Reading Evening Post, UK)
Chance to dine on public dime Oct 22, 2003
Berryville spent $175 for three officials and one spouse to eat at
The Blue Hippo. The restaurant has offered such exotic entrees ... (Richmond Times Dispatch, VA)
Call to avoid wasting water Oct 16, 2003
...the car with a bucket, not a hose, taking a shower instead of a bath, waiting for
a full load before you do the washing and fitting a free water-saving Hippo ... (Reading Chronicle, UK)
I Like to Watch Oct 22, 2003
When nostalgia turns toxic: Mariah Carey prattling on about "Hungry, Hungry Hippo"
in VH1's "I Love the 80's." Plus: The breakout star of the current reality ... (Salon (subscription))
Hip(po), hip(po), hurray! Oct 16, 2003
...latest attraction at the zoo. The hippo zone is the centre of attraction
with two additions in recent times. The first, a male, was ... (Times of India, India)
Creative ways to fight drug use Oct 28, 2003
Pioneer School will host a program, "We Are Wild About Being Drug Free,"
with a visit from Hoola the Healthy Hippo and a Dillon Park Ranger. (Zanesville Times Recorder, OH)
Little goes a long way with his eccentric, thought-provoking art Oct 26, 2003
She points to an enormous bronze hippo head rising, as if from water, out of a ring
of orange neon and next to a geometric block of little tract-type houses ... (Salt Lake Tribune, UT)
Town in drought danger warning Oct 28, 2003
Residents should use the shower instead of taking a bath and fit a water-saving
device called a hippo bag to their toilet cistern - available free from South ... (Reading Chronicle, UK)
Hold the hip hop Oct 30, 2003
Having been for some months on the bar/bat mitzvah circuit with Aaron's friends,
I'd had enough of noisy DJs spinning "YMCA," and joining other hippo-hipped ... (Jewsweek)
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Nov 1, 2003
How many toes does the hippo have?" he would ask, then wait for answers, as they
faced away from the art. "How many spots on the ladybug?" he would follow up. ... (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA)
Aish.com delivered Oct 26, 2003
Wails from alarm signals replaced memories of snorting hippo bulls, and high,
concrete walls with spiked electric fences grew in place of the flat-topped ... (Aish, Israel)
Schools participate in National School Lunch Week Oct 15, 2003
Students are being served safari spaghetti, beaver baked beans, panda potato salad,
hippo hot dogs and jungle juice, all to match the week's "Wild About School ... (Elizabethtown News Enterprise, KY)
DARK DAY FOR PRINCES AFTER MOTHER'S DEATH Oct 23, 2003
...daze. After a few minutes, William's voice halted the reflection.
"I want the giant hippo, Paul," he said, pointing at it. Mother ... (The Mirror, UK)
The Case for War Oct 20, 2003
...(Presumably, he even went back in time — like Peter Potamus the Hurricane Hippo
— and convinced Bill Clinton and his entire national-security staff and the ... (National Review Online)
The message is clear: It's crunch time in Trenton Oct 20, 2003
The GOP mail piece featuring McGreevey in the floating hippo refers to the governor's
controversial "working vacation" to Puerto Rico earlier this year. ... (Newark Star Ledger, NJ)
THE FISHING REPORT Oct 16, 2003
San Francisco: Casting about and making the stops, we find Hippo manning the counter
at Hi's Tackle Box, on a Wednesday, with the usual characters around. ... (San Francisco Chronicle, CA)
Be thankful today's rodents are small Oct 21, 2003
The biggest living rodent is the semi-aquatic capybara of South America, which
is about the size of a sheep and looks rather like a small, furry hippo. ... (Boston Globe, MA)
Stot overcomes hiccup to win Croc Marathon Oct 19, 2003
This was forced on the race organisers, after a large adult hippo was spotted
in the river in the section that was to have comprised the second leg. ... (Independent Online, South Africa)
New exhibit at Washington's history museum Oct 16, 2003
Visitors will learn about their own connections to the mammals on display,
including lions, water buffalos, wildebeests, zebras and a hippo. ... (Scripps Howard News Service)
Tall in the saddle Oct 20, 2003
Kakki’s therapist and mother agree she is happier and more able thanks to two years
of hippotherapy, a treatment named after the Greek word hippo, for horse. ... (Arkansas Democrat Gazette, AR)
FRIGHTFULLY GOOD WORK Oct 23, 2003
Task Force, which will provide information about child passenger safety, including
car seat information; Insta-Gator; Audubon Zoo Bugmobile; Bippo the Hippo ... (Times Picayune, LA)
On The Edge Of Common Sense: Cowboys canąt stop crocodilian cow Oct 18, 2003
...water. She swam to the middle and stopped. She could still reach bottom
but only her head showed hippo-like on the surface. ŚŚWe ... (Amarillo Globe News, TX)
The cow that pulls rowboats Oct 17, 2003
...water. She swam to the middle and stopped. She could still reach
bottom, but only her head showed hippo-like on the surface. "We ... (El Defensor Chieftain, NM)
Soul Hunter Oct 15, 2003
...fun. The constant bickering between him and what looks like a flying
hippo that he flies on, Sibu, creates some grand comedy. The ... (Anime News Network, Canada)
Ruth Paige, 80, talkative, friendly Oct 23, 2003
In San Francisco she joined a singles’ social club and met her future
husband at a soiree at the old Hippo restaurant on Van Ness Avenue. ... (Point Reyes Light, CA)
SUCCESS FOR ART EXHIBITION Oct 22, 2003
...a 24-hour period. The winner of the under-16 category was Laura Gregory,
of Rossington, with Hippo. Three highly commended prizes ... (Doncaster Today, UK)
Exhibit helps ages 3-8 expand knowledge through `imaginative play ... Oct 17, 2003
...said. Families familiar with Scarry's works will recognize such whimsical
animals as Lowly Worm, Huckle Cat and Hilda Hippo. The ... (South Florida Sun-Sentinel, FL)
Business calendar Oct 18, 2003
...meeting. There will be a site tour of the new elephant and hippo exhibit,
followed by a meeting. Call Lila White at 266-4222. The ... (Topeka Capital Journal, KS)
John Paul II Starts Catecheses on Liturgy of Vespers 08 Oct 2003
Quoting St. Augustine of Hippo and other Church Fathers, he explained:
"In the evening the Lord is on the cross; in the morning he rises. ... (Zenit News Agency, Italy)
Matopos park fire extinguished 08 Oct 2003
...such animal species. The animals found in the park include rhinos,
giraffe, sable, kudu, zebra, hippo and bush bucks. Speaking at ... (Harare Herald, Zimbabwe)
Dining is always more fun with four-legged, or feathered, friends ... 08 Oct 2003
...with it. Sometimes he would swing round and look into my mouth as
if I were a hippo and he wanted to pick my teeth. Observers of ... (Telegraph.co.uk, UK)
Bob Takes a Training Run ... A Long One 08 Oct 2003
Clydesdale machine that loves to go downhill. However, on the run? I’ma
hippo on stilts. I’ma barrel chest and shiny head mounted ... (Xtri.com)
Hippo John Daly Power Max 430 Driver Oct 4, 2003
Description: 430cc head forged from 7075 titanium alloy. Low torque
system matched Power Flex graphite shaft Lofts - 10ˇ Shaft ... (Golfmagic.com)
BAT continues to firm as Hippo eases Oct 2, 2003
BAT has vindicated the Diamonds and Dogs article 25 that appeared in The Financial
Gazette of July 10 2003. This commentary was more than value for money. ... (Financial Gazette, Zimbabwe)
The school that needs a Ł 35000 hippo sandwich to get by Sep 25, 2003
To get an idea of how the Government's education rhetoric plays in schools, you
need only to look at the letter that the parents of more than 450 children at ... (Telegraph.co.uk, UK)
Hip, hip, hippo Sep 18, 2003
Chhatbir Zoo, September 18: TUCKED away from public eye, behind the main enclosures
for hippopotamus, Mama hippo is keeping a wary eye on her first-born — an ... (Chandigarh Newsline, India)
Festival held to raise money for hippo therapy Sep 11, 2003
March. Therapists from Allied Therapy in Dublin use the horses at Circle
K Ranch for "hippo therapy," from the Greek word for horse. ... (Columbus This Week Newspapers, OH)
Hippo baby born at Chhatbir zoo Sep 18, 2003
...the zoo. Zoo staffers said the hippo baby, which is a female, was still
very shy and was closely attached to its mother. Zoo staffers ... (Chandigarh Newsline, India)
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