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Article: Zoo makes Amazon flow through D.C.(Metropolitan Times)(Class Acts)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 27, 1996
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After passing the pen of the spectacled bear, the Finkelstein family walks through the humid Amazonia habitat and wanders through the science gallery, where they explore the wonders of the Brazilian rain forest.
"What are you doing, Mom?" asks Jeffrey Finkelstein, 11, inside the newest exhibit of the National Zoo. Susan Finkelstein and her youngest son, Andrew, 5, stare at an interactive computer display as Andrew manipulates a track ball to point and click for more information.
"I think part of what the kids most enjoy is the control of focusing in on a particular part of the information they want," said Mrs. Finkelstein, 40, of Chevy Chase. "The ...