Word: barks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Modifications in the design continued even a few days before the launch. Assad's team used traditional caulking, the sere bark of the paper tree, but it proved leaky, so they switched to standard marine waterproofing. Modern navigation and communications technology, such as the satellite-based global-positioning system, or GPS, have been installed with no apologies. Ports are cut in the ship's sides so that it can be propelled with paddles if there's no wind. The toilet, at least, can't be surpassed for authenticity: a meter-square box attached to the ship's starboard side, with...
...novel soon made the 23-strong list of Booker candidates (Fischer's didn't), and last week London bookmakers had it 8 to 1 to win, trailing only J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello. So how is the book? The reassuring news is that Yellow Dog's bark is far better than the back-biting. Yes, this dog can hunt. The book is classic Amis, energetically written, peopled with colorfully named lowlifes, suffused with violence and physical decrepitude, whirring with plotlets and straining to tackle big themes. It's the story of Xan Meo, a successful London actor-writer and doting...
...some 60 trees an acre, and as individual trees, they seem far healthier than before. For one thing, the outer coating of their needles has increased in toughness, which helps discourage foliage-eating insects. For another, their nonwoody tissues are producing greater quantities of resin, which affords protection against bark beetles. Best of all, there is no longer any need for mechanical thinning, as low-intensity prescribed fires can safely...
...averse will just roll their eyes at such dogophilia. I can't help it. Chester was always at your foot or your hand, waiting to be petted and stroked, played with and talked to. His beautiful blocky head, his wonderful overgrown puppy's body, his baritone bark filled every corner of house and heart...
...Hour (find a dog lover and you've found a pun lover). "Dogs need parties as much as we do," says Linda Monterrey, who attends with Gidget, a scrappy, petite Chihuahua mix. At Manhattan's Doggie-Do salon (seriously, they love puns), owners can hold dog birthday parties and bark mitzvahs (you believe me now?) with printed invitations, gift registries and a game called ice hockey, in which dogs chase a slippery liver snack frozen in a block of ice across the floor. Apparently it's not easy to come up with a pun for a frozen-liver game...