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Elsewhere, some frightened citizens are resorting to less elaborate precautions. In the Cleveland suburb of Garfield Heights, Nuns Mary Assumpta and Augustine Marie recently enrolled their Siberian husky Tanya in the nearby Inter national School for Dogs. For about $500 per pet, that academy teaches normally docile canines to bark, growl and bite. "We've had occasions when there have been people trying doors," says Sister Mary of her 32-bedroom convent. At the school, Head Trainer Howard Denton said business stayed strong even during the recession. "Any dog can do protection," he asserts. "I've trained poodles...
...months, living in seclusion in his villa at Port Lligat, north of Barcelona. Surrealist Dali has been working, and last week he was ready to unveil what he regards as his masterpiece. It is a large (7½ft. by 4⅔ ft.) Madonna which Dali calls in Latin Assumpta Corpuscularia Lapislazulina (The Bodily Assumption in Blue). At the summit of his elongated Madonna is the head of his wife, Gala, gazing heavenward; her body is being reconstructed in a sunburst of softly colored atomic corpuscles. The body is still transparent and through it, Christ can be seen floating above...
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