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James Serpell puts the U.S. gross national pet product at $7.5 billion a year. The figure covers the cost of food and veterinary services for 475 million cats, dogs, birds, rodents, reptiles and aquarium fish. Presumably there are extras such as doggy spas, rhinestone collars, pooper scoopers and what professionals in the domestic-animal world might call alternate-species entombment. The costs are proportionately staggering in the households of the European Community, home to an estimated 91 million nonhuman inhabitants, excluding unwelcome vermin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pet Theories and Pet Peeves in the Company of Animals by James Serpell | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

...obliged to attend a black funeral "disguised as a human being." In that way, they might "get some idea of the intensity of feeling, of the heavy tide of resistance sweeping through the townships, instead of sitting on their green benches in Parliament, insulated like fish in an aquarium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Life Behind the Walls | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

Round and round paddles Neaera Duncan (Glenda Jackson). She lives in a tiny walk-up and is a blocked children's book writer. She has taken to keeping a solitary water beetle in an aquarium, hoping that it will inspire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shell Games Turtle Diary | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

Symbol and Substance in Grade School Science: Dr. Philip Morrison, New England Aquarium's Auditorium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: December 12-18 | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

Critical and Creative Thinking in Science Education: Robert Schwartz, Boston Aquarium's Auditorium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: November 14-20 | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

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