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Then Jamie surprised me by asking me to name a product I felt passion for?something I had a "special story" about. That seemed like backward '50s-think. Who cares what I like? I like whoever is going to pay me the most. Does she think Clive Owen likes to rub man lotions all over his body? Still, Jamie kept pressing the passion issue. So I blurted something out like "dessert wine and tea." There was a long silence. "Whoa, never heard that one before," she said. "That's probably not where the money...
...thing no one doubted was Irwin's passion to protect the world's wildlife from the threat of dwindling habitat. Sorry, did I say no one? Greer again: "What Irwin never seemed to understand was that animals need space. The one lesson any conservationist must labour to drive home is that habitat loss is the principal cause of species loss." Yet here's Irwin, interviewed on Australia's ABC TV network in 2003: "Easily the greatest threat to wildlife globally is the destruction and annihilation of habitat...
...thing no one doubted was Irwin's passion to protect the world's wildlife from the threat of dwindling habitat. Sorry, did I say no one? Greer again: "What Irwin never seemed to understand was that animals need space. The one lesson any conservationist must labour to drive home is that habitat loss is the principal cause of species loss." Yet here's Irwin, interviewed on Australia's ABC TV network in 2003: "Easily the greatest threat to wildlife globally is the destruction and annihilation of habitat...
...hold your horses. (And that is this story's last pun. Promise). Few bills have stirred more passion, pro and con, than the Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. It passed the House by a vote of 263-146 Thursday (with a large majority of Democrats supporting it, even though they griped that the chamber had more pressing matters). Here's the issue: about 90,000 horses are sent each year to three plants in this country (two in Texas and one in Illinois, all foreign-owned), where they're slaughtered and the meat is shipped to restaurants in Europe and Asia...
Your schedule can't leave much time for your passion, Wiffleball...