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Within the past century, though, and especially over the past 50 years, the most popular types have been bred almost exclusively to look good -- with "good" defined by breed-specific dog clubs and the American Kennel Club (AKC). "Form has been separated from function," says Brian Kilcommons, a dog trainer in Middletown, New York."Styles come in vogue. The competition at dog shows is geared almost exclusively to looks." This focus on beauty above all means that attractive but unhealthy animals have been encouraged to reproduce -- a sort of survival of the unfittest. The result is a national canine-health...
...There's a real question as to whether it is a function of the students not caring or whether it is the student government which is flawed. I'll be trying to get a feel for that in the coming week," he said...
Another time, the alarm went off and he "couldn't sleep through it and had to go outside in the cold without being warmly dressed," Segal said. Segal joked that the alarm "was the best attended house function so far this year...
...tool. It remains useful in many areas of the world, where election monitoring, peace-keeping and border monitoring missions continue. Moreover, it still can serve a useful function in collective security--the Gulf War wasn't all that long...
Among the GOP's cost-cutting votes today: a ban on "commemorative" declarations like National Good Teen Days and National Domestic Violence Awareness Month -- measures it says eats about $300,000 a year. House Speaker-elect Newt Gingrich called the commemoratives a "feel-good" function of publicity-seeking Democrats: "What we are saying to people is we believe a smaller government with less of a burden, with less intrusion in your life, will make you feel even better...