Word: cats
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...only open Friday through Sunday. The place is a bit hard to find - there's no sign - but having to enter through the side entrance of an unassuming commercial building gives your arrival an Alice in Wonderland quality. And if there's no white rabbit, the white Persian cat that strolls the garden is an acceptable substitute. Diners who like the furniture can have reproductions made by the owner, who also runs a design and landscaping firm. There's no word on whether he can build you your very own gazebo, however. Even if he could, Agalico's ambiance...
...modest promise.The book opens with an alarm at Doyle Cutler’s house and, although nothing concrete has happened, it is clear that that Cutler is a man to look out for. Cutler has all the trappings of a villain—wealth, secrecy, and even a hairless cat. When the central event of the plot—Mary Steckl’s sexual assault—finally occurs midway through the book, it comes as no surprise that it should have happened at Cutler’s mansion.Meanwhile, characters are self-consciously shaking the foundations of their lives...
...brochure? It’s hers. She likes both creating and watching animations as well. Her bow, in fact, was inspired by a character in a Miyazaki animated film named Kiki, a 13-year-old witch-in-training who flies away from home with her talking cat named Jiji and a large red bow. Indeed, she seems to have as many interests as she has bows on her bow shelf. This year she is taking classes to get her license for ham radio, a type of radio communications popular amongst hobbyists. After graduation, she plans to work in a nanotechnology...
...February, 24-year-old Li Qiaoming was beaten to death by other inmates in a jail in the southern province of Yunnan. The initial explanation, that he had died during a game of "elude the cat" - a type of "hide and seek" - touched off widespread indignation at the implausibility of the story. To respond to the outcry, provincial officials invited a group of bloggers and journalists to investigate the circumstances of Li's death. The unusual exercise in public participation stumbled when jail officials refused to provide critical pieces of evidence, including surveillance tapes of the detention center. The comments...
...austere, dim practice room, with dancers clad in basic t-shirts and tight black exercise pants, the lighthearted social gathering transforms into a passionate cat-and-mouse game between the dancers...