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...will be a shame, and an opportunity wasted. Memory has a richly self-stimulating dynamic. You remember one detail - an image from long ago, or, quite often, a smell (smell and song being extraordinary stimuli to memory), and soon those images or smells or lyrics breed a thousand more, and an entire world comes flooding back. The lost world reassembles itself as story...
Last week the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged Americans to help reduce the risk even further by taking a few simple precautions, such as wearing insect repellent and eliminating sources of standing water where mosquitoes breed. But before you throw your favorite bug spray into a backpack and head out the door, it's important to keep a few safety tips in mind...
...hours on an animal preparing it for the ring. For most dogs, however, the answer is surely no. Beauty shows like these have proved increasingly bad for the health of canines ever since the Victorians discovered they could change a dog's appearance over a few generations through intensive breeding - and that they could show their handiwork for pleasure and profit. Many countries, with Britain among the foremost despite its long dog-breeding tradition, are only slowly addressing the accumulated health problems that may leave animals crippled, blind or deaf. Dogs were once bred for protection, hunting and herding...
...problems with breathing, even walking SHAR-PEIS: Adults lose many of their wrinkles, but these endearing pooches are prone to congenital skin infections and eye problems caused by the eyelid rolling in on the cornea GERMAN SHEPHERDS: Hip dysplasia, which can bring on crippling arthritis, causes problems for this breed IRISH SETTERS: They should be screened for hip dysplasia and also for progressive retinal atrophy, an incurable inherited eye disease that gradually leads to blindness says Geoff Sampson, a geneticist who works for the Kennel Club. But that kind of judging has too often been unrewarding...
...tuna. In a generation or two, smart young mice will have a system of pulleys that will open the refrigerator door in the middle of the night. God knows how a new infusion of butter, protein-rich cheese, yogurt, red-leaf lettuce, and V-8 juice will invigorate the breed and enlarge its cerebral cortex...