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...Dark Man X, n?e Earl Simmons) has a few platinum CDs, including It's Dark and Hell Is Hot, and a tattoo on his back that elegizes his pet dog. Here he plays Tony Fate, a gentleman thief whose latest heist, a handful of black diamonds, gets him in trouble with some mean malefactors (Hawaii-born Mark Dacascos and Kelly Hu). The black diamonds turn out to be plutonium pellets that could Destroy the World. DMX has charisma enough for the job, performing tough scenes and teary ones with equal facility...
...says Hare; his advisor flatly denied it, saying that dogs were a textbook example of an animal not sophisticated enough to follow human thought processes. Hare’s “cute little undergrad study” that he conducted in his garage using two pet dogs as subjects proved that he wasn’t barking up the wrong tree. One thing led to another, until last year Hare published “The Domestication of Social Cognition in Dogs” in the journal Science...
...spends an hour or two on it each day. "It's hilarious," says Bailey, who has used Craig's List to land a role in an off-off-Broadway musical, find roommates, get dates and score concert tickets. Terry Larimore, 50, a psychotherapist in Larkspur, Calif., adopted a pet rat through the site last summer. When Fuzz died in January, Larimore posted a death notice and received over 70 condolence emails, including poems and links to pet-loss grief programs...
...rise. The judge enters the court in a black robe. She's 25, loquacious and the cutest justice the show's producers could find. With a rap of her gavel, the first case begins. Standing before her is the defendant, a Beijing resident who keeps a pet donkey in his apartment. The outraged plaintiff argues that farm animals aren't allowed in city homes. The defendant retorts that his donkey has never lived on a farm so it isn't a farm animal. Well, says the plaintiff, Beijing residents aren't allowed to keep dogs bigger than a Pekinese...
...some of the nation’s most important social programs. Bush is taking advantage of the country’s economic slump and the war on terrorism to give tax breaks to his wealthy political patrons and to spend money we don’t have on Republican pet projects...