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...heard that you were always the dog in your family plays. Sure. I was the youngest for five years until I got replaced by my little sister, a wound I feel to this day. What's this story about...
...following morning I took a ten-mile run in a placid valley beneath the Green Mountains-a stream, a junkyard dog, an 18th-century one-room schoolhouse, a falconry camp, farms, farms, more farms-then enjoyed a nice breakfast drenched in the world?s best maple syrup and, after shopping, pointed the Honda south. I decided to take the shunpikes down to Brattleboro, hotting village after village. In funky Jamacia, Vermont, I stopped and bought the kids some maple moose pops at the general store. The longhaired kid at the cash register was talking Sox with...
...Scoobie, the dog, roused Mom when I arrived, and she got up to watch the last three innings with me, and to do some catching up. I was on the couch Dad used to use to watch NESN (he died three years ago), and Mom was on hers. ?They?re going good,? she said. ?First place...
...this season stepped in for Charlie Steiner in the radio booth when Charlie headed for Los Angeles to be Vin Scully?s sidekick. Here?s something to suck on, Yankee fans: In the 1980s and ?90s Waldman was a BLOHARD, her dues were always paid up. Her dog in 1985 was named Fenway. I?m betting that if she still has a dog, he?s named Fenway Two or Fenway Three. We?re everywhere. And Suzyn, you?re outed...
That understanding is nothing short of revolutionary. Only a decade or so ago, scientists were arguing vigorously over whether animals had emotions: just because a dog looks sad or a chimp appears to be embarrassed doesn't mean it really is, the skeptics said. That argument is pretty much over. The idea of animal emotion is now accepted as part of mainstream biology. And thanks to Bekoff and other researchers, ethologists are also starting to accept the once radical idea that some animals--primarily the social ones such as dogs, chimps, hyenas, monkeys, dolphins, birds and even rats--possess...