Officials of the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden say they have taken the first step in lessening their dependence on tax money by asking Hamilton County voters this November to renew a tax levy  

At some point in a tiny municipal courtroom downtown -- where during the morning prisoners were led away in handcuffs and others stood before the judge accused of having clobbered wives, girlfrie  

Entering the exhibition, you immediately stepped gingerly along a short footpath, past stones that suggested rubble and past a tiny, disfigured doll -- "American Victory Garden, Baghdad" -- and   

Near the end of a country road winding through farmland just outside Felicity, Ohio, the Chilo log house lives again, standing tall, overlooking a pond whose still waters attract elegant wood duck  

It wasn't only the return of spring weather March 14 that explained the casual dress on the campus of Xavier University. Many students wore shorts, but many also wore T-shirts proclaiming V-Day -  

Instead of green beer there is mead, a fermented honey wine. In place of St. Patrick is Monty Python -- a four-foot ball python whose ancestors the saint was said to have driven out of Ireland. O  

The images persist -- the minister carrying a picket sign over his shoulder, standing at the gates to Coney Island, sitting in a federal courtroom, standing vigil outside the gates to the old Ohi  

Stephen comes to school 38 years ago badly beaten, and Jonathan Kozol befriends him. Stephen is 8 years old, in the fourth grade and weighs 60 pounds. He's a fine artist, in Kozol's estimation,   

Drive east along U.S. 52 as it winds along the Ohio River and stretches past farmland and rolled bales of hay, past a couple of power plants -- Zimmer in the village of Moscow sends white clouds