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Even in the post-dotcom age, many businesses allow dogs at the office, and DreamWorks has gone a step further by providing a dog run for its employees' pets. People in Boca Raton, Fla., who need to be separated from their dogs during working hours but feel guilty about it can send their pets to day care at Camp Canine, where, for $22 a day, the dogs can play to exhaustion and then watch videos such as 101 Dalmations. "It's like children's day care. They get time outs and treats," says owner Lisa Schettino, adding, "Some...
...rather than of the century, a configuration that doesn't make sense until you start reading, and some of the best writing comes at the beginning, in the chapters covering the meaningless, sun-soaked overture of spring training. There, sitting in the stands with the senior citizens in Sarasota, Fla., watching a trio of trainee pitchers share a joke, Angell confronts the hidden pain nursed by every bleacher bum: "We would never be part of that golden company on the field, which each of us, certainly for one moment of his life, had wanted more than anything else...
...that measure, Price and Eustachy--whose self-made messes were Clintonesque in their carelessness--flunked school. Price, who had previously coached at Washington State, already had something of a reputation for wild living and had reportedly been warned once. Nonetheless, on April 16, prior to a Pensacola, Fla., golf outing, he is said to have spent much of the day drinking at a local strip club. That night, according to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, two women he met there joined him in his hotel room. Price admits to one woman but claims she merely helped him back to the hotel. No matter...
...Arthur Ally, 61, president of the Timothy Plan, a group of eight "biblically based, pro-life, pro-family" funds. Based in Winter Park, Fla., and founded in 1994, Timothy has about $150 million in assets and roughly 12,000 shareholders. Ally will invest in no firm he feels is involved in promoting or financing abortion, pornography or "the homosexual agenda." He also shuns alcohol, tobacco and gaming stocks. (Military contractors are O.K.; even the Prince of Peace, says Ally, believed in self-defense...
...defending national champion Stanford (23-1) brought the Crimson season to an abrupt halt in the NCAA Round of 16 in Gainesville, Fla., yesterday. The No. 17 Crimson (19-4) had hoped for more against the tournament’s No. 1 seed, but the defeat did not take away from the team’s accomplishments this spring...