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June 3-4: The World Millennium Convention of the Budgerigar Society; in Eastbourne, England. Bird lovers pay tribute to the chirpy little parakeet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Something New to Do This Summer? | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...memberships to vacation shares in the Caribbean. And now, thanks to some clever capitalist thinking, even prospective employees' pets can profit from the competition; according to Associated Press reports, a growing number of companies are offering pet health plans to help defray, for example, the expense of a beloved parakeet's ankle surgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Employee Benefits Have Gone to the Dogs | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

...assistant manager of Petco on 119 First St. reported that a man placed a parakeet in his pocket. When the man saw he had been observed, he restored the parakeet to a shelf and left the store...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 2/4/1998 | See Source »

Frankie is a waitress, and Johnny a cook, in a dive of a diner somewhere in the Big Apple. She comes home every day to a small apartment with meat loaf and beer in the fridge, a stuffed E.T. doll on the nightstand. "I had a parakeet once," she admits. "I hated it, I was glad when it died." Frankie is a pro at cloaking loneliness in irony. She probably was glad when Tweety bought the bird-farm, but then again, she'd never tell us otherwise...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, | Title: The Cook, the Waitress, Her Bed and Her Toothbrush | 5/9/1997 | See Source »

Joanna M. Weiss '94 was editorial chair of the Crimson in 1993. for her next project, she plans to take on the health project, she plans to take on the health care crisis. he has a pet parakeet named Percy Pigeon...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: The Answers We've Been Waiting For | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

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