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...Colgate (CL) has "side-stepped the global slowdown" as MarketWatch recently wrote. In the most recent quarter the company's profits were up 20%. It would be hard to pick a better time to sell toothpaste, pet food, and shampoo. Even in a bad economy, most of these are products will have stable sales...
...couldn't have been more my son than if I gave birth to him.' SANDRA HEROLD, on her pet chimpanzee, Travis, who viciously attacked a woman before being shot dead by police...
...Travis's case, his owner was forced to call 911, then attack and repeatedly stab him - a cherished pet she had reared for years - with a butcher knife in a desperate attempt to save her friend...
...young male chimpanzees in Africa have been known to fashion crude weapons and use them to hunt bushbabies for meat. Attacks on human beings are rare, but they do happen - and the results are often catastrophic. The former NASCAR driver St. James Davis, who raised a chimpanzee as a pet, was attacked by escaped chimps at an animal sanctuary in 2005; he was left with injuries and disfigurement so severe that doctors kept him in a medically induced coma for three months. (See pictures of the 50th running of the Daytona...
...Pet chimpanzees are also reservoirs of disease and can pass along infections like yellow fever, monkey pox and the Marburg virus to their human keepers...