Word: cats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...animal research puts an implicit higher value on human life than animal life. We humans do not have a right to consider ourselves so superior that we can use other animals' live to save our own. We are discriminating on the basis of species. But we already do that. Cat food contains meat including tuna, poultry, and veal. We must have decided at some time that our cats' lives were more important than the animals we're feeding them. By keeping some animals as pets, we are automatically condemning others to suffering. In 1987, 5 million British housecats killed...
...kind of gene) might have caused some of her problems. But at the end of the month I craved sunshine, and it started to grate on me that I had to take off my shoes at the end of the day to avoid potentially poisoning my dog and cat...
...since. "Here," Gance said, "was a new alphabet for the cinema." But with the entry of talking films that year, the language of silents became as obsolescent as Yiddish. Films got chatty, conservative; they still are. Most modern directors don't know Gance's "alphabet." They can barely spell cat...
...himself from the competition. This was more than simply the single biggest track-and- field failure of the entire Olympics; it was also a rent in the cosmic fabric, a mishap as inconceivable as A.J. Foyt's pulling his car out of the garage and backing over the family cat. The fans in Barcelona sat in shocked silence, then proceeded to whistle him out of the stadium--Europe's equivalent of a Bronx cheer. The debacle was so startling that some observers began composing Bubka's professional obituary. Less than two months later, however, he was back in form...
...kind of person who has stayed out until 3 a.m. searching for a boy who had run away from home in his neighborhood; the kind of person who once gave a cat to his secretary as a gift, honestly believing she would love it--and then taking it back home with him when she didn't. He is the kind of person who organized, with the rest of the office, to have a care package sent to my dorm room while I stayed up all night to write my thesis. He is one of the kindest people I have ever...