Word: pet
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...Pain: “Buy You a Drank”—May have the most unusual chord progression ever to hit the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100. Also has beautiful, Brian-Wilson-Pet-Sounds- style background vocals. (T Pain and Akon have brought a spiritual sound to pop music these past couple of years. Interesting that they’re both Muslims...
...litter should give hope to every Harvard student who’s ever had an “awkward balloon!” moment. 5. Joan Aiken and Quentin Blake, “Arabel’s Raven”: The stories of lonely English schoolgirl Arabel and her pet raven, Mortimer—who solves mysteries and incites mass upheaval in Arabel’s household while continually croaking, “Nevermore!”—resemble Roald Dahl’s “Matilda” but are about five thousand times better, thanks...
...Pet owners are never shy about declaring the importance of their relationships with their dogs or cats, so perhaps it was just a matter of time. As growing numbers of people find their perfect mates with the help of screening services like EHarmony or Match.com, animal lovers can now turn to personality tests to help find their perfect pet...
...More than 150 animal shelters now successfully use what are called Canine-ality and Feline-ality assessments to match prospective pet owners with just the right dog or cat. The quizzes have been so successful that euthanasia rates have been cut by 40%. "It really all comes down to matching," says Emily Weiss, an animal behaviorist and the Senior Director of Shelter Behavior Programs for the ASPCA, who devised the assessments when she worked at the Kansas Humane Society. "If I'm looking for a partner, be it a dog or cat or human, there are certain things...
...stop at giving people prosthetic limbs. The ICRC's Ali Abad Ortho Center in Kabul provides jobs, employing only the disabled. "We discriminate 100% here," says Alberto Cairo, an effusive Italian who heads the orthopedic program. "If you want a job here, cut off your leg." He pauses to pet the center's resident collie, which limps because it was hit by a car. "Actually, don't do that. We don't have enough jobs as it is." Cairo nods at a young man serving tea with a prosthetic right hook. He also wears a prosthetic left foot. "That...