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Let’s Bore the Tourists II

You won’t even have to travel to the Ranua Wildlife Park in Finland to see their planned new exhibit. They want to put up a camera on the Internet so web surfers can watch one of their bears. As it hibernates. All winter. “It may be a bit like... watching paint dry,” says managing director Ilmo Hakkarainen, but he promises the exhibit will be “scientifically interesting.” (Reuters) ...At least paint does something while it’s drying.


Publication Date: 4 August 1996

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