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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Stewart and his wife a trailer to live in. The first night they slept in it, she woke up with blood coming out of her nose. Then he started developing troubling respiratory symptoms - burning eyes, coughing, a constantly scratchy throat. One morning, they awoke to find CiCi, their pet cockatiel, half-dead. All the symptoms pointed to formaldehyde poisoning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grilling FEMA Over Its Toxic Trailers | 7/19/2007 | See Source »

...Marcel-Keyes has a girlfriend but has dated two boys; identifies herself as queer (not lesbian), pro-life and "anarchist"; and attends Mass whenever she can spare the time from her menagerie. (When Marcel-Keyes and I spoke recently, she and her girlfriend had a rabbit, a ferret, a cockatiel, two rats and two salamanders.) For their part, several of the young Exodus Christians seemed more stereotypically gay--"I love that Prada bag!" a 16-year-old boy at the Youth Day squealed several times--than some of the Point scholars who had been out for years. Others had gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Over Gay Teens | 10/2/2005 | See Source »

...shop business, firms like Petco helped spark a boom in part by changing people's conception of smelly, helter-skelter pet stores, according to Marshall Meyers, executive vice president of the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council. After folks found that they adored their new cockatiel, they started going to local shops for accessories unavailable at the chains, he says. The hostility between the independents and the chains has abated somewhat, replaced by a realization that David and Goliath can help each other. Want a hedgehog? You'll have to visit a local pet shop--the big chains haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plucky Little Competitors | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

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