Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What clocks have we forgotten in the past 60 years? Which among the clocks preserved ought in fact to be forgotten, set aside on a distant shelf like a porcelain dog? This midsection...
...dogs would die anyway. They would be strays, caged in shelters, ready to be "put to sleep." The idea was that the Defense Department's new Wound Laboratory would pay about $80 for each dog. When the time came for research to proceed, the dogs would be anesthetized with pentobarbital, suspended in nylon mesh slings and shot with a 9-mm Mauser from a distance of twelve or 15 feet. The dogs would then be carried into a lab, and people studying to be military surgeons would examine the damage and learn something about gunshot wounds, which might some...
...situation of animals stirs people in a profound way that is sometimes difficult to explain. Thoreau wrote, "It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or a dog than to any human being." Sometimes the love of animals bespeaks an incapacity for the more complicated business of loving people; mental patients who react to other humans with fear and loathing can develop calm, tender relationships with puppies. Animals are usually perfectly themselves, not the elaborately perverse psychological mysteries that people seem to become. Animals, if not rabid, have a certain emotional reliability. But being...
Lazare Kaplan has now developed a way to dog-tag diamonds. It has patented a device that uses a laser beam to inscribe gems with a trademark and seven-digit number that is visible only under magnification. The company spent ten years developing the desk-size engraving device, which, it says, performs the delicate operation without affecting either the clarity or the color of the stones. The firm has leased one of its first six machines to a Japanese company and three of them to Manhattan's Gemological Institute of America, which will inscribe stones for jewelry retailers. Says...
...Black leadership heretofore. And no one is more aware of this than Jesse Jackson himself: "My running," Jackson remarks, "will stimulate thousands to run [for elected office]: it would make millions register. If you can get your share of legislators, mayors, sheriffs, school-board members, tax assessors and dog-catchers, you can live with whoever is in the White House... We need 10,000 Blacks running for office from Virginia around to Texas--county clerks, supervisors, judges, legislators, governors--Just run! Run! Run!" (Today there are about 5200 elected Black officials, whereas the potential is probably two or three times...