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...article, "Alumni editors mark Harvard Crimson's 100th, Cliffe still waiting for her invitation," ran with a companion article describing the festivities...
...COMPANION ANIMALS Americans own 112 million pet cats and dogs, and most consider Fluffy and Spot members of the family. Ninety-two percent of American pet owners display pictures of their pets at home or at work. Fifty-three percent believe their animals would risk their life to save their owners. Such interspecies devotion will soon stretch beyond the grave. Two firms, including PerPETuate Inc. in Farmington, Conn., are offering services to store DNA so that a four-legged loved one can be reproduced once cloning has been perfected...
...upbeat advice on how to maneuver successfully as a single. She also discusses the next set of questions that arise: Where should I live? Should I start a new career? Should I get married again? Women experiencing the dislocation of sudden singlehood will find Jaycox's book a helpful companion...
Even there, though, his role is a "smoothie charmer," for onscreen and off there is no getting away from the fact that Grant was born to be the perfect dinner-party companion; he flirts, he pays attention, he jokes about his "Austin Powers teeth," he gives the term self-deprecating a whole new meaning. People forget, for instance, that before Four Weddings, he appeared in a string of what he calls "Europuddings"--but Grant is delighted to remind us. "I was always a champagne baron for some reason," he says. "I did Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again...
...story has assumed mythic proportions, like the sinking of the Titanic or Robert Falcon Scott's doomed race to the South Pole. Shortly after noon on June 8, 1924, the 38-year-old English schoolmaster and Alpinist George Leigh Mallory, along with a young companion, an Oxford engineering student and oarsman named Andrew ("Sandy") Irvine, 22, vanished into the mists surrounding the summit of 29,028-ft. Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, never to be heard from again...