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...because their social hierarchy allows us humans to neatly insert ourselves in the dominant position. But while domesticated pets have had much of the wild bred out of them, they are still, at heart, animals - something your dog or cat is happy to remind you of, with a sharp nip or bark, should you ever forget, and try, say, to dress little Mitzi in a sweater. (If you are the kind of person who makes your dog wear rain boots, I think you should probably reconsider before he gets wind of this lion story...
...suspense first, of course, but it's tolerable suspense--nothing like waiting for Congress to vote on campaign-finance legislation or sitting through a year of Enron hearings to find out whether the poker-faced Ken Lay is history's biggest con man or sorriest dupe. It was nip and tuck there for a while before Bode Miller finally took the silver in the men's combined downhill, but only for a while...
...think back to this time last year - in January 2001, the economy was clearly catching at least a vicious winter cold. Manufacturing was contracting. Stocks were sluggish. On Jan. 3 Alan Greenspan picked up the phone and called in an emergency 50-basis-point rate cut to try and nip the gathering contraction in the bud. Economists, analysts and business journalists were agreed that we were in for a sharp slowdown, maybe even a recession. But it would be the briefest of downturns; maybe a quarter or two, tops, with recovery setting in by August...
...allowed to return to their thrones?provided they can spawn and install heirs as frequently as Rome produces Prime Ministers Thailand: No male may surgically transform himself into a female if it makes him taller than the sovereign, with or without platform heels Michael Jackson: With one, final, mandated nip-and-tuck, the King of Pop will finally be elevated to Queen...
VIRTUAL PUB CRAWLS Just Logging On for a Quick Drink Londoners beware! the next time you nip down to the pub for a quick screen break you might well find that you're actually broadcast live on the Web as you sip your illicit pint. Now suspicious spouses have an easy way to verify the age-old "working late" excuse: just log on to www.viewpub.com. British leisure giant Whitbread has teamed up with Web design firm Viewpub to install webcams in six of its London establishments. They show live pictures on the Web from 6 p.m. until closing time every...