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Lorraine O'Connor, 75, blogs on Me and the Cat about her pet, President Bush and her first bikini ("I gotta tell ya, I looked really fine"). She gets 35 visitors a day. Want to start your own blog? Go to blog.com or seniornet.org Or e-mail White. "I'd be happy to help," he says...
...South Carolina house cat named Piper plummeted 80 ft. from a tree last week and survived. Turns out her feat--which a local TV station caught on video and was also aired online--wasn't unusual. Cats take the plunge so often that "feline high-rise syndrome" was coined in 1976 to describe survivors' injuries (often a bloody nose and chest or lung trauma). "We have on record cats surviving after falling from 32 stories," says James Richards, director of Cornell University's Feline Health Center. How? A cat instinctively rights itself in midair, then spread-eagles to maximize drag...
...While we think it is a good thing, we think we had already addressed it in a pretty good way,” said Lucey, characterizing the University’s initial approach as “a slightly different way to skin the cat...
When a plainclothes police detective appeared at her DeWolfe dorm room on a Friday night asking to enter in search of loud music, Cat P. Walleck ’06 was suspicious. There clearly was no noise coming from her room, she says, and she was reluctant to let him in.“He saw that I was hesitating, and said, ‘Oh, my supervisor is down the hallway,’” Walleck says. “Eventually, I let him come in.”The officer entered her common room, looked around...
...good chunk of Apocalypto involves a wild and terrifying foot chase through the Mexican rainforest, Gibson has also put Youngblood through a brutal action-adventure wringer, with the rookie doing many of his own stunts. "I'm amazed at how much Rudy's running reminds me of a cat," says Gibson. "He's the track star we needed for this picture...