William Mullen

Twice a day the monotony and stultifying doldrums of this overpacked camp of 12,000 Mozambican refugees is broken by the arrival of three big tanker trucks. The trucks enter the...

Going off to the Third World to trek through wilderness or visit otherwise remote areas seldom trod by tourists is, for me, the most rewarding travel. Europe has its obvious...

On the other hand, Parker says the Brookfield baboons, all of whom were zoo-born and reared far from Africa, have shown amazing displays of complicated behavior similar to wild baboons....

Zoos had been run pretty much that way since the first one in America opened for business in 1868. It happened to be the Lincoln Park Zoo, started with the...

It`s a hot weekend day in the middle of the summer, and it`s time you, the spouse and the kids did something together. You wouldn`t mind going to an air-conditioned...

When completed, the African Scenes exhibit will cover an area larger than the entire Lincoln Park zoo. In other times that might have been a mortifying prospect for officials at...

The neighborhood around Clark Street and Armitage Avenue is one of night clubs, trendy bars and restaurants and high-rise apartments skirting the heart of Lincoln Park. Because of the park,...

''We were struck with amazement as we found the iron door of the vault burst open and hanging by its upper hinge,'' wrote Blatchford. ''At the right of the door,...

Underneath the profusion of vegetation lay its deep and dense root system, extending 6 to 8 feet or more beneath the surface. This underground root system worked in concert with...

''The part of this business that is the most fun for me is that I literally don`t know what I`m going to be selling from one month to the next,''...