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...hard to say. I got on okay with the Marines, which hopefully comes across in the book. But it was like a cat and wild dogs staring at each other. It was completely different species. We were from such different worlds. I knew that the last thing they probably wanted was to have me sort of sitting there. I would like to think that I wasn't outwardly terrified, but I did ask a lot of annoying questions. Having me write about them must be just a really disconcerting experience. Having some guy you've never met before, from...
...nonstop witty, a real charmer, but his charm has a teasing, Cheshire-cat quality, as if his whole personality were just a game he plays with other people. "O.K., this is the first interview of the day," he muses out loud. "What kind of mood am I in? Am I going to, like, tell some stories?" After he offers me his assessment of the menu, he fixes me with a quizzical stare. "Do you believe me? Really? Even after reading my book...
...best known for playing Miss Ellie Ewing, matriarch of the wildly dysfunctional oil family on the nighttime TV soap opera Dallas; in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Bel Geddes wowed critics in George Stevens' 1948 film I Remember Mama and in 1955 originated the role of Maggie in Tennessee Williams' play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. In 1978 she moved to Dallas for the paycheck and took home an Emmy two years later...
...July, and piles of papers are scattered across the floor and tables of Assistant Dean of Freshman Lesley Nye Barth’s Hurlbut Hall apartment. As she sorts through the collection of papers, her cat wanders into the room, stepping on and destroying a few carefully ordered stacks—groups of four roommates that she had spent hours assembling as she culled 550 or so housing applications for the perfect match. The cat’s romp sends her back to step one, and she gathers the papers to rematch the students...
...human stem cells." GS&C still wants to capture the Fido-cloning market, though, and company scientists are trying to reduce the inefficiencies. Even if they manage to clone a dog, says Ben Carlson, a company spokesman, it won't be cheap. "We're charging $32,000 for a cat," he says, "and it will be more for dogs...