AND FINALLY ...
From Times Wire Reports
The stork won’t be visiting the National Zoo’s pandas after all. Two weeks after expressing hope that Mei Xiang might finally be pregnant, zoo officials in Washington said that was not the case.
The giant panda was artificially inseminated May 2. Late last month, zookeepers said Mei Xiang was either pregnant or having a pseudopregnancy. On Wednesday, they confirmed it was the latter.
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