Word: greyhounds
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...track's shrinking revenue is bad news for Macau's greyhound population: Some 300 to 400 of the racing dogs are destroyed each year, a Canidrome official told the South China Morning Post last August. (The Canidrome declined interview requests.) A local law confines greyhound ownership to the Canidrome, making it impossible for anyone else to adopt the dogs. Some are injured or too old to race - greyhounds have a racing life of only two to three years - but others have simply been deemed too expensive for the struggling enterprise to maintain. "They're making a huge mistake," says Cynthia...
Cassandra's Dream is the name of a long-shot greyhound who wins a race and makes a small fortune for an addicted gambler named Terry (Colin Farrell). It is entirely appropriate for him to give the name to the smart little sailboat he and his brother Ian (Ewan McGregor) buy with his winnings. It is also believable that these working-class lads would not know much about the lady after whom the speedy canine was named - mythology's great purveyor of doomy portents. It is, finally, appropriate for Woody Allen to find the title for his movie in this...
...pointed to guaranteed seating as an advantage over competitors. “We only book as many seats as we have available,” she said. “We have approximately 56 seats on every bus.” Competing bus companies Fung Wah, Lucky Star, and Greyhound Lines, Inc., do not offer guaranteed seating. The seats are filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Bluzenstein also said his company’s drivers were particularly reliable. “We are very demanding of our drivers in the quality of service provided...
...Nine years beforeRosa Parks' defiance set off the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott, Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, a black woman returning to Baltimore from Virginia, refused to cede her seat on a crowded Greyhound bus to a white person. Having kicked the policeman who removed her from the bus, she pleaded guilty to resisting arrest but refused to pay a $10 fine for violating Virginia's Jim Crow laws. Her case, argued by NAACP lawyers Thurgood Marshall and William Hastie, worked its way to the Supreme Court, which in 1946 ruled segregation on interstate buses unconstitutional...
...animal cruelty would continue to persist unless individuals and society chose to lead alternative lifestyles. During the event, “Facing Animals,” the panelists told the crowd of more than 150 that ways to make a difference in the area included putting an end to greyhound racing, eating meat, and cosmetic testing. Sunstein also recommended that hunting be banned if “there isn’t any other purpose except for sport or game.” “Scientists are exempted from cruelty laws, and in hunting, hunters are almost always excluded...