Word: outcastes
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...where's Lonsdale now? Basking in glory as a giant of veterinary science? Well, no. In fact, he's an outcast, having recently been expelled from the Australian Veterinary Association for bringing the profession into disrepute. There's much to suggest that Lonsdale has become a victim of his own obsession. He quit practicing in 1992 to eke out a living researching and promulgating his theories. Ever since, he's hammered a simple message: commercial pet food - on which Australians spend $A1.3 billion a year - is bad for cats and dogs, which should be eating raw, meaty bones. Many vets...
...course also plans to study Louisa May Alcott herself. The daughter of an impoverished social outcast, Alcott has become as legendary as her books, although often mistakenly so. “Little Women is always represented as a typical American family, but neither the Marches nor the Alcotts were,” says Allgor...
British Sea Power, instead, sing about Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic voyage in the Spirit of St. Louis, parade around like a group of unkempt, outcast forest rangers and make a really big deal about their interest in birds...
...that high school loner who was always up to no good in chemistry class. But Peter Hedges’ directorial debut, baptized in Hedge’s golden screenwriting touch (already used to the benefit of What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? and About a Boy), humanizes this outcast by burrowing into the life of the character brushed past in high school hallways, endowing her with a family and catching up with her years after high school graduation when she is trying to redeem herself and renew her family ties...
...depiction of adolescent angst and despair. This is questionable. We Singaporeans have seen too many delinquents cutting class, chain-smoking, taking drugs, running away from home and fighting. Because the government has not yet approved this film for general release in Singapore, Tan said he feels like an outcast. Well, no apologies. This country was built by a generation of workers through strenuous effort, not by a bunch of whining misfits. Ye Weiren Singapore...