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...Species Act and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species make it illegal to import a wild tiger. But there is no need to import one, says Nicole Paquette, legal-affairs director for the Animal Protection Institute in Sacramento, Calif.: "Tigers reproduce easily, and there are plenty of backyard breeders producing cubs. They're like puppy mills." Anyone who wants a tiger can go to an alternative-livestock auction. Or if that is too much trouble, they can just surf the Web, where large-scale breeding operations and mom-and-pop outfits advertise cubs for as little...
Eating pizza in her backyard while her 14-year-old daughter braided her hair, she told canvassers that she “definitely” planned to vote for Kerry...
...wish it were merely cute coincidence that the Democrats chose Boston to host their national convention next year, before the Republicans managed a convention coup in the Yankees’—and Sept. 11’s—backyard. But fate, I like to think, intended a wakeup call for the defeatist Dems: shake off the Curse of bin Laden while you can, before home for you becomes a ghetto of idle opposition...
...hometown lies on the dense outskirts of Philadelphia. The houses on my block are closely packed, and our backyards are about the size of my single in Pfoho. Which is fine. My family grows potted plants on the porch, and we keep our backyard tree trimmed. My next-door neighbor, however, has not made the same aesthetic decision, and for this she creates and suffers under a variety of problems...
That is, after all, the Balestracci way and has been for years. Their competitiveness in backyard games as children was a big reason each became a three-sport star at New Bedford High School...