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...PET CONCIERGE Jim Cameron, 42 The Milestone Hotel, London Duties: Consults on food and bedding for guests' pets; arranges for walks The fun part: "Caring for a celebrity's poodle who would jump off the suite balcony onto a beanbag...
Another part of Jensen’s appeal (aside from personal charisma and his pet cat anecdotes) is that he that links up this modern disillusionment with a doctrine of apocalypse and redemption. In Jensen’s eco-feminist world, “nature” stands in for the divine entity; Gaia is the force for good, the all-embracing mother in a terrible violent world. “Civilization” is the rapist, the pillager, the lustful Satan. Jensen’s world gives everything meaning in the way that he taps into a feeling that...
...commit acts of frenzied cruelty," is his description of a wolf attack on a herd of prize horses. "The raw meat in their mouths meant nothing to the wolves: only the murderous tearing of horseflesh mattered." More problematically, the book contains puzzling chunks in which Jiang details his pet theory: that thousands of years of farming have turned the Chinese into a spineless people who placidly accept direction from above and are too timid to seize what they want. If the country is to avoid decadence and decay, he argues, the Chinese must emulate the ferocious independence of the wolves...
Rabbit Lips Nabaztag's latest Internet Rabbit, a $170 Web appliance in the form of a cute digital pet, will read you the news, weather or even e-mail. The new model has a belly-button mike so you can ask it aloud about stocks, traffic or anything else of interest...
...mean they're going to let their dogs down. Just ask Leona Helmsley's pooch Trouble, who earned a $12 million trust fund when her owner died last year. WSL Strategic Retail's survey found a net gain of 28 percentage points between those spending more on their pets versus those spending less compared to 2006. In their 2008 study only two categories out of 17 showed significant spending increases among women and men: food and pet supplies. Owners are frequenting pet specialty boutiques or picking up an extra doggie tee or collar along with their own clothing purchases...