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Seary, who is quick to point out that she does not kill the animals she stuffs, begins the process by removing and washing the animals' fur. Then, she washes the skin with dog shampoo...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Roadkill Collector Appears On TV | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

...their roots. "Electric Barbarella," on the Duran Duran scale, is a mixture of "View to a Kill" and "Girls on Film." In this song, the band pays hommage to their eponoymus roots--the '60s cult classic Barbarella which featured a seminude Jane Fonda (Barbarella) trapsing across galaxies in her fur-lined spaceship, trying to save the universe from the clutches of mad scientist Duran Duran. "Electric Barbarella" is the only song on the album in which the boys allow us to see the nonsensical verbiage which was smattered across their earlier records. Lines like, "Major Domo/Plastic Como/Barbarella" should...

Author: By Ivy C. Pochoda, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fun and Nothingness With Attitude | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

...thing, Greene says, we should suspend our natural preference for animals with fur, feathers and facial expressions. Then, he says, we would be able to start appreciating snakes for their "special beauty and mystique"--and for such unique characteristics as their extraordinary sense of smell, their amazing versatility, their stunning coloration and a repertoire of deadly toxins that could serve as a model for future drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN PRAISE OF SNAKES | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

According to Harrigan, the group drew members from several organizations calling themselves the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), the Animal Liberation Brigade (ALB), the Primate Freedom Campaign (PFC), and the Coalition Against the Fur Trade (CAFT...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, Caitlin E. Anderson, and David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Animal-Rights Activists Protest Research Center | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...funds have become as exclusive as Augusta National, and hot managers are the rock stars of the investing world. Among the sexiest: George Soros, whose Quantum Fund has tallied a 33% annual return historically, vs. 7% for stocks; and Julian Robertson, whose Tiger funds are to Park Avenue what fur is to Gstaad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEDGE FUNDS--OR, HOW THE RICH GET RICHER | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

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