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...began a tumultuous week as Hong Kong's tail wagged the U.S. dog down 550 points--and then the dog barked back with 330 points up before returning to the kennel. Once again, the public deserved praise for its ability to put Hong Kong's woes in the correct, minuscule perspective, even as Wall Street bigwigs deserved scorn for trying to incite panic over a country that represents an infinitesimal amount of our commerce...
...increase is due in part to the growing popularity of dogs that people buy to protect themselves against violent crime. The fiercely protective Rottweiler, in particular, has gone from 15th in 1986 to the second most owned dog in the American Kennel Club's registry of breeds. (Between 1979 and 1996, according to Sacks' study, Rottweilers were responsible for 29 fatal attacks, second only to pit bulls, which accounted for 60.) Ann Martin-Gonnerman, president of the Kansas City-based National Society for the Protection of Animals, says the problem isn't so much the canines...
STEVE WULF, TIME's sportswriter, usually covers pampered, overpaid athletes. At last week's Westminster Kennel Club show, however, he found himself covering some pampered athletes of another species. As Wulf watched a Gordon setter and a Brittany spaniel finish one-two among sporting dogs, he found himself reliving childhood memories of Troy, New York, where his family kept two dogs--a Gordon setter named Beau and a Brittany named Brill. "They were like George and Lennie from Of Mice and Men," remembers Wulf. "Brill was a small but brilliant hunting dog. Beau was big and not very bright...
Twelve hours earlier, Pa, a.k.a. Ch. Parsifal Di Casa Netzer, a five-year-old standard schnauzer, had been judged best-in-show at the 121st Westminster Kennel Club show, the second oldest sporting event in North America. (The Kentucky Derby is older by one year.) For two days every year, Madison Square Garden becomes the friendliest place in the world. Last week some 2,500 dogs, representing 156 breeds, descended upon the Garden, each hoping to work its way through the canine justice system: best of breed, best of group, best-in-show. Pa was one of the favorites, having...
...OWNER OF THE YEAR: Marge Schott, who tried to make a kennel of the Cincinnati Reds...