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...person, or would you like to be one? Welcome to the club. Thirty-four percent of American households include at least one cat, which adds up to 90 million pet kitties owned in the U.S. If you're thinking about getting a cat - or want to know more about the one you've got - the new book The Cat Bible: Everything Your Cat Expects You to Know (Gotham) is an excellent place to start. Author Tracie Hotchner is one of the leading experts of the feline world. Her popular radio show, Cat Chat, which airs Wednesdays on Sirius radio, celebrates...
...highest councils. And Hu had even managed to have his concept of "scientific development" - a catchphrase for implementing a more socially equitable, sustainable and deliberate approach to China's economic growth in coming years - enshrined in the party's constitution. (Jiang only managed to achieve such immortality for his pet philosophical catchphrases upon leaving office.) Hu's position is "completely consolidated" says Li Datong, former editor of the Chinese weekly Freezing Point and a close observer of party politics...
...investment banking” on the list of things I am likely to try in the future. I don’t anticipate a life of unhinged isolation, but given the right reading material, being a cat lady doesn’t sound like that bad of a life.The pets I had growing up are some of the defining characters of my childhood and teenage years. One of my first memories is of my first cat, Yossarian, dying. We kept her body in the garage for three days before we could cremate her, and I was scared...
DeGeneres's outburst was, frankly, the kind of thing you expect her to satirize, not indulge in. And today she told her TV audience that the controversy had "gotten out of hand" and said she would drop the subject. As for the pet adoption agency, a Texas woman responding online to a Times of London article on this story (DeGeneres' show is syndicated internationally) got it just right. "Having done animal adoption for over 30 years," Margo Dover of Austin wrote, "I would have said that a compromise was in order. Mutts & Moms [the agency] should have gone...
...only hope that pet owners and pet adoption agencies will, in the future, consider Ms. Dover's common sense. Please, please, please...