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...Government contract to build a particularly unsavory laser-powered weapon. His students do all the hard work, while he glides, snakelike, through the corridors of power. Among his drones are Mitch (Gabe Jarret), an innocent 15-year-old prodigy; Kent (Robert Prescott), who is teacher's pet, half toady, half Gestapo agent; and a case Hathaway has burned out (Jonathan Gries) until the others recruit him for the climactic revenge plot...
...North Carolina organization, pet project of Senator Jesse Helms, announced in January that it hopes to take over CBS by persuading conservatives across the U.S. to buy shares in the company. James P. Cain, a Fairness in Media co-founder, pronounced the group "delighted" by the Atlanta tycoon's move and promised its support...
Some appear perfectly pedestrian, with the warm white fur and beady pink eyes of pet-store mice. Others are clearly extraordinary, waddling about on paws shaped like miniature dolphin flippers or swollen to the size of their larger relative, the rat. They are called transgenic mice, and in a nobly selfless fashion, they are revolutionizing modern biology. Hidden somewhere along the twisting chain of DNA found in every cell of their bodies are alien genes, injected by biologists. The study of these mutants and the effects of the interloping genes may help provide answers to such fundamental questions as what...
...banking on Americans' increasing obsession with their pets, which is fueling 6% annual growth in the $34 billion pet-care industry. "Pets are the new kids," she says, noting that young couples see pets as a parenting test run. Dog day care, pet-custody battles and even plastic surgery for animals testify to America's humanization of pets. Nemeth, who says her Balinese cat, Symphony, "talks" to her, knows her market. She spent thousands on wheelchairs and a hyperbaric chamber when her dog Kicsi was dying of spinal-cord degeneration. Nemeth's salespeople teach pet care to their customers, much...
There's plenty of obsession in Nemeth, who thinks that, among other things, pet owners should learn how pets communicate. (She says it was hard to know what her previous cat said because it "talked too much. I know exactly what Symphony is saying. Cats tell you a tremendous amount just with their tails.") Nemeth's other crusade: to get pet owners to install seat belts for their dogs. "At 30 m.p.h., a 35-lb. dog is over 1,100 lbs. of force," she says. Her cause has managed to change things behind the scenes of the pet- adoption cable...