Word: pet
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After writing about plants in her acclaimed book, The Orchid Thief, Orlean has moved on to animals, penning a piece on Keiko, the whale from Free Willy, for the New Yorker. She also interviewed a woman in New Jersey who kept close to 30 pet tigers. “People have an appetite for exotic things—it’s kind of an enduring issue in human nature.” Both accounts are collected in her new book, Homewrecker: Travel Stories from a Woman Who’s Been Everywhere, which will come out in November...
Hueston, basing his argument on the difficult European experience in stopping the recycling of animal feed, said he still supports IRS recommendations to ban risky materials, such as brain and spinal cord tissue, from animal feed and pet food...
...take on complex peacekeeping and nation-building missions, the Bush administration cannot afford to shortchange American servicepeople. And lawmakers shouldn’t give Bush the chance. House and Senate Republicans should show some uncharacteristic backbone and prevent the Bush administration from wasting this spending increase on Pentagon pet projects and hi-tech fighter programs that are for the most part useless in the fight against terror. Earmarking the money for salaries instead of fattening an already bloated weapons budget would make a bad budget a little bit better...
...score in the top three percentile for companionship, slightly above humans. But dogs aren't funny; saucy repartee is not a canine forte. They are unlikely to perform a song-and-dance number that mentions all 50 states alphabetically. And rarely are they blue. The premise of Teacher's Pet, the new traditional-animation comedy film from Disney, is that Spot--a precocious, singing, very blue mutt--wants to be a real live boy. But he's too chatty to be a doggie, and almost too faaaabulous to be an ordinary human...
...been filled out by director Timothy Bjorklund with such loving congestion that you'll need to see the film twice to get all the fun. (Look for the Mickeys!) As CGI cartooning takes over the world--Disney just closed down its traditional-animation studio in Florida--Teacher's Pet finds a fresh and frisky approach to doing things the old, Walt way. --By Richard Corliss