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Although his Afghanistan essay, “Lion in Winter,” might appear to be the most relevant and timely, his most important point resides in his other essays, primarily the title essay on forest fire-fighting and a historical essay on a nineteenth-century fur-trapper. Junger offers a valuable lesson for life in post-Sept. 11 America: what heroism really means...
Tanenhaus points out a skinny black bag with flourescent faux fur trim and says, “I was going to make this one a pencil case and someone commented that it seemed like it could hold a vibrator...
...have a serious problem with inherited mitral valve disease, and are more than 50% likely to have heart murmurs by the age of five DALMATIANS: Inherited hearing defects may be linked to their white pigmentation, and yet dogs with small black spots, not big splotches, and lots of white fur are favored by breeders BULLDOGS: Once symbols of British stamina, the animals often have problems with breathing, even walking SHAR-PEIS: Adults lose many of their wrinkles, but these endearing pooches are prone to congenital skin infections and eye problems caused by the eyelid rolling in on the cornea GERMAN...
With a career growing, Puryear, 60, has done a number of public art projects in recent years. The latest (still in design) is for the state of Illinois, commemorating the first pioneer to settle in what eventually became Chicago: a fur trader named Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable, (1745-1818). Little is known about Du Sable except that (through his mother's Haitian ancestry) he was black. This became a matter of some importance to the city's black community, and Puryear, who lived in Chicago in the 1980s, has been approached about a possible monument to its obscure founder...
...Barker resigned as the host of the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants because of the use of fur coats as prizes. He also cited alleged animal cruelty as the reason for his resignation as host of “The Patsy Awards...