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CLEVER DOG. A highly manicured poodle, ((Munito)) was introduced into a circle of ((numbered)) pasteboards. With his teeth Munito picked up the correct cards to solve problems in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. For inquiries in . . . geography, botany and natural history, he selected appropriate alphabet cards. He could identify colors . . . and was adept at dominoes . . . The most logical explanation . . . was Munito's exceptional sense of sound, not smell . . . As Munito circled the cards with an "air of reflection," the trainer would . . . make an almost inaudible clicking noise with his fingernail or a toothpick. This would alert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Dogs and Other Marvels | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

Douglas Vasquez learned to write from a popular teacher in his native town of San Juan de las Flores, El Salvador, by tracing the alphabet in the dirt of a hill where he lives...

Author: By Margaret Isa, | Title: Teachers Persevere in Cambridge's El Salvador Sister City | 12/1/1993 | See Source »

Mother and Father can take down the pictures and store the rocking horse in the attic, pluck the magnetic alphabet off the refrigerator door. Maybe they can find some other use for the room with the yellow wallpaper. Or they could close it up and seal it like a tomb so they can go about their grieving for the merry little girl they love and are about to lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adoption: In Whose Best Interest? | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

...Harvard Business School, every building has name on it. I wouldn't be surprised if every toilet has a name on it," Alpert said, adding that many buildings at the Medical School are identified simply by letters of the alphabet...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: $20 Million Given To Medical School | 4/8/1993 | See Source »

Using each letter of the alphabet, Watson listed what he considered were the keys to success for the Black community...

Author: By Evan J. Eason, | Title: Watson Urges Black Unity As a Means to Black Equality | 2/3/1993 | See Source »

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