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CLEVER DOG. A highly manicured poodle, ((Munito)) was introduced into a circle of ((numbered)) pasteboards. With his teeth Munito picked up the correct cards to solve problems in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. For inquiries in . . . geography, botany and natural history, he selected appropriate alphabet cards. He could identify colors . . . and was adept at dominoes . . . The most logical explanation . . . was Munito's exceptional sense of sound, not smell . . . As Munito circled the cards with an "air of reflection," the trainer would . . . make an almost inaudible clicking noise with his fingernail or a toothpick. This would alert...
...office. One problem, say some distributors, is that an increase in serious movies from the major studios -- among them Schindler's List and In the Name of the Father -- has made it tougher than ever to find an audience for small "specialty films" (the new, commercially correct term for art film...
...interview insists the $13,350 of interest paid (or reimbursed) in 1980 was the only cash of their own that the Clintons put into Whitewater. Ever? Yes, says McDougal: "Those two figures I've given you, those interest payments -- that's it. Period. End of discussion." If he is correct -- and the White House fiercely disputes him -- that would mean the Clintons could not possibly have lost anything like the $68,900 they say they invested in Whitewater, since they put less than a fifth that much into...
...story in Wednesday's editions misidentified the compound used by Harvard scientists in experiments with radiation at the Wrentham (Mass.) State School in 1962. The correct name f the compound is sodium iodide...
...Cucci's argument were correct, all those "long, enjoyable hours running along the Charles at dawn" (at dawn, for Heaven's sake!) would have earned him a corresponding mental acuity. Apparently...