Word: pet
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...sorry to hear about the death of your beloved pet pig, Max. Will you get another? -Jackie Cole, Lafayette, Ind.No, there is only going to be one pet pig in my life. [Laughs.] I have done the pig thing...
Each year some 2,000 cetaceans are speared or bludgeoned to death in the waters near Taiji, accounting for nearly a tenth of the national haul. Some of the meat is consumed by humans. (No, it doesn't taste like chicken. Think gamier, chewier beef.) Some is used in pet food or animal feed. But much of it ends up frozen in the national whale-meat inventory, which contains thousands of tons of excess food...
...don’t hate Harvard—you just hate the disproportionate number of d-bags at Harvard. How many times in the past week did you repress an urge to self-flagellate, curse over a loudspeaker, or lock your frenemy’s pet in a frozen-fry filled freezer? Fool that you are, you have been overlooking your most potent weapon: the Harvard section. With an arsenal of a few simple tricks, one hour a week is all you need to crush your nemesis. 1) The Bigot Upper-Cut “By suggesting (insert opponent?...
...undergraduate at Harvard, decided to expand the service to text messaging. “As times and technology have changed over the years, it’s simply been fun to breathe new life into him,” Malan wrote in an e-mailed statement, referring to his pet creation. This innovation comes on the heels of other technological developments, including an emergency text-messaging alert system put into place this semester in the wake of last spring’s shooting at Virginia Tech. Harvard affiliates can join the alert system by registering their cell phone numbers...
...million allotted for them to shoring up U.S. bridges following the collapse of a highway bridge in Minneapolis that killed 13 people. The amendment failed 80-18. Undeterred, Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, immediately introduced his second amendment of the day: a motion to suspend all earmarks - or pet projects often attached in secret to funding bills - until structural integrity of all U.S. bridges can be verified. There were $2 billion in earmarks in the bill, which, if passed, will fund the Transportation Department next year; the amendment failed 82-14. That same day Senator Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican...