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Prairie dogs and pouched rats are just two of the critters known as pocket pets that have surged in popularity lately. Pet-industry insiders say the little fur balls appeal to exotic-pet lovers with limited free time or backyard space. Despite the possible public-health hazards these pets represent, business appears as healthy as ever. Michael Jones, a veterinarian at the Jones Animal Hospital in Tacoma, Wash., says he sees growing numbers of pet marsupials from New Zealand known as sugar gliders, as well as chinchillas and naked vole rats. If animal inspectors and public-health officials are concerned...
America needs its hairy heroes (maybe not Robin Williams), and George Lucas is obliging. It has been 20 years since CHEWBACCA appeared in a new Star Wars movie, but Han Solo's faithful, fur-covered sidekick will return for a small part in Episode III, which starts production this summer in Australia. Peter Mayhew, the 7-ft. 3-in. English actor who donned the Wookiee suit for the first three Star Wars films--and has been signing autographs at conventions ever since--will again play the brawny warrior from the planet Kashyyyk. Lucas has said that Episode...
...stocks are down, the fur is up, and as the annual general meetings kick off, the claws are out for corporate "fat cats." Last week 21% of shareholders voted against executive pay packages at British group HBOS, nearly 50% voted no at BAE Systems, and U.K. Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt began investigating ways to limit executive compensation. This despite the fact that most European execs earn a pittance compared to their American cousins: Novartis' respected CEO Daniel Vasella took a top spot on Europe's pay charts by earning $14.9 million last year - less than the U.S. average...
...have taken over Nouman's life to the exclusion of everything else. Her small home in Baghdad's working-class al-Ghadeer district is filthy; the rooms are damp and smell of rotting garbage. Her pets, a mangy brown pup and two molting cats, have shed clumps of fur on her bed, an old foam mattress on the living-room floor. There are pieces of stale bread everywhere. But the squalor doesn't seem to bother Nouman. She has lived in much worse places - a succession of prison cells, torture chambers and mental-hospital wards. Her living room...
Back at school yesterday, Gray said she worries that her new crown will conjure up Harvard student’s preconceived notions of beauty queens who walk away with “a car, a fur coat and a modeling contract...