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Most of these genetic problems would disappear if Americans could somehow be persuaded to abandon purebreds in favor of mutts. While individual mixed-breed dogs have problems, the animals on average are a lot healthier than their high-class cousins. "Mutts are the Hondas of the dog world," says syndicated animal columnist Mike Capuzzo of the Philadelphia Inquirer. "They're cheap, reliable and what nature intended in the first place. They are what you would get at a canine Club Med if you left them alone for six years." There are "breeds" in the mutt world, just as there...
Indeed much of the diplomatic discussion last week focused on ways to bail out: how to withdraw the 24,000 U.N. peacekeepers should the need arise quickly, an undertaking that could pose appalling dangers. Extreme contingencies call for the troops to abandon equipment and dash for helicopters or the coast, shooting their way out if necessary. Already as of late last week, 360 soldiers of the U.N. "protective" force, which sometimes seems to need more protection than it delivers, were being held virtual hostages by Serb forces; their numbers could grow if a pullout were ordered...
Amid a flurry of sometimes conflicting statements from sundry officials, the White House announced a major change in its Bosnia policy that brings the U.S. into line with its NATO allies. The Administration will abandon its strategy of threatening the use of military force in order to bring the Bosnian Serbs to the bargaining table. "Our only hope," said White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, "is that at some point the parties recognize there's no use continuing the kind of carnage that's going on there at the present time...
Hiring practices showed the reluctance of many not only to abandon strict meritocratic selection, but also to grant tenure to professors whose teaching methods and views on affirmative action differed from their...
...Roman patron -- This young man has the fury of a devil. Furia didn't simply mean rage; it suggested a state of inspiration, of contact with primeval forces that lie below the surface of culture -- the war god's frenzy, the satyr's beastliness, the erotic abandon of the maenad...