Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...understand the reasoning behind the Pentagon's decision to wound deliberately a laboratory dog and then kill the poor creature after military physicians treat the animal. The doctors who are willing to participate in such a program cannot possibly be sensitive to human suffering...
...complaints of dog lovers are disturbing. The only way we can simulate the reaction of trauma to the body, without actually using humans, is to experiment on animals. If doctors are not allowed to practice on these creatures, they will not become the highly skilled surgeons that people can trust...
...torture and thievery by tattooing the ears of their cats. Yet some tattooed cats have already been found dead, with their ears cut off. Other concerned protectionists now advocate supervised spaying or simple incarceration of pets. But even with those precautions, many cats must wish they were leading a dog's life...
When the Hall of Fame season collides with the dog days of a baseball August, the feeling is emphasized. Two weeks ago in Cooperstown, N.Y., a buckskin village celebrated as the leafy laboratory of Abner Doubleday, Baltimore and Detroit Third Basemen Brooks Robinson and George Kell, San Francisco Pitcher Juan Marichal and Dodger Manager Walter Alston went into the Hall. Just 149 players are enshrined, only 15 having been beckoned on the first wave of the Baseball Writers' Association. (Ballots are cast five years after a player retires and for up to 15 years after that until he receives...
Publishing can be a dog-eat-dog world. Consider some of last week's news. First Random House snapped Norman Mailer, 60, away from Little, Brown. He wanted a publisher based in Manhattan rather than one in faraway Boston, explained Mailer's agent, who down-played reports that, in addition to New York, Random House threw in a tidy $4 million for the author's next four novels. Meanwhile, Doubleday also had something to bark about. Its newest author is one C. Fred Bush, 11, four-legged companion of George and Barbara Bush. Due in April...