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Meanwhile in Lebanon ... Lizard Alert Beirut's residents are in terror of a giant lizard that has been roaming the streets, killing cats, dogs and even a horse. Witnesses say the reptile is a Komodo dragon, thought to be a freed pet. Authorities appealed to nature and science TV channels for help in snaring the beast, which has so far eluded the best efforts of the civil defense to catch...
...fact, the only subject that could prompt Ford to stray from the topic of a lecture was his pet sport, baseball. Ford, who played baseball in high school and college, was an avid fan. According to his son, one of his greatest disappointments was that neither of his two favorite teams—the Chicago Cubs of his hometown and the Boston Red Sox of his adopted city—won the World Series during his lifetime...
...Galan, one of five hawks intended to cull pigeons in New York City's Bryant Park, exceeded the job description when it swooped down on a stroller's pet Chihuahua. The program has been suspended
...beach party in Spain or tune into Belgian radio, and you're likely to hear one word: "Chihuahua!" This is not a forlorn pet owner summoning his tiny, unimaginatively named dog. It is the sound of marketing, the remix of an old mambo song that has gone from TV spot to hit single and the word on millions of lips. And it's all brought to you by Coca-Cola - not that you'd know from listening to the song. In a cluttered marketplace, advertisers need to be different. Traditional ads repeating a brand name 30 times in 30 seconds...
...Kids, then, was not so much a departure from violence as a return to his pet subject. Rodriguez had always idolized his uncle Gregorio, a special agent for the FBI. But it wasn't until he was shooting Four Rooms with Banderas in 1995 and a group of pint-sized actors, all dressed in tuxedos, that the penny dropped. "They looked like little James Bonds, and I thought, Wow, that's the angle. A spy family," he says. "I can use my family's dynamics and values, with the spy twist to give it some action...