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...which can exert as much force as 1,800 lbs. per sq. in. -- are strengthened by swinging the dog on a rope, its teeth clamped to a tire. This, she says, makes the animal a "lethal weapon. They hang on until their prey is dead." Such techniques, says Franklin Loew, dean of the Tufts University veterinary school, turn the dogs into "time bombs on legs." Many are used for high- stakes dog fighting, which has a sizable nationwide following, even though it is a felony in 36 states...
...warning to others to stay off the sidewalk." Randall Lockwood of the Humane Society notes that the animals have become increasingly popular as dog fighting has moved from rural areas into cities. They appeal "to the disfranchised and the unemployed. The owners themselves are often violent." Tufts' Loew sees the bonding of owner and dog as akin to a "horror movie," with maladjusted owners training their dogs to be an "extension of themselves...
...satisfied to stand still, Tisch hankered after the bigger, bolder deal. In 1960 he found a worthy object for his ambition in Loew's Theatres, a chain of 118 movie houses. Like many a later Tisch target, the company was undervalued. Reason: many of the theaters rested on prime city real estate, whose worth was not reflected in the stated, or book, value of the firm. After taking over the company, the brothers sold off the most valuable sites and renovated many of the remaining theaters...
...Unie" palled (even though a heavy date might pay the extra fee and take you to sit in the overstuffed seats in the balcony), we would get on the "Mass Ave" streetcar and go into town to the Fine Arts Theater around the corner from the old Loew's State-Theater. There we would sit entranced by Rene Clair's Sous Les Toits de Paris and Le Million or Congress Dances, a charming old chestnut about the Congress of Vienna, replete with waltzes and romantic intrigue, which for some reason or other we used to pride ourselves on having seen...
...robot to pieces because he considered it demonic. The Swiss alchemist Paracelsus, who was himself considered rather demonic, gave lectures on the creation of a homunculus and even offered a recipe of ingredients, including human blood and putrefied semen. In 16th century Prague, too, the devout Rabbi Judah Loew was reported to have created out of clay a giant robot known as a golem. This figure, which came to life when a tablet with a divine name, shem, was placed in its mouth, was supposed to protect the Jews from persecution, but some accounts claim that its masters tried...