Word: pets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next flight is scheduled for this week), it could take five years and at least $2 billion before a full-scale Delta Clipper is ready for business. But aerospace executives are already dreaming about the day when getting into orbit costs no more than a transatlantic flight. Among their pet ideas: nuclear-waste disposal, space- based advertising and low-earth-orbit tourism. A weekend visit to a space station, anyone...
...does Letterman seem troubled about the much publicized dispute with NBC over the rights to his signature bits, such as the Top 10 list and Stupid Pet Tricks. The Letterman camp has conceded some points; it has changed the title of the show from Late Night to Late Show with David Letterman, for instance. But the Top 10 list and other familiar bits will be back, Letterman promises, though possibly under different names. "I would never put CBS in a position where they would have to legally defend me," he says...
...incredibly insecure and very self-torturing," says Merrill Markoe, his former girlfriend, who helped create Late Night, devised such popular bits as Stupid Pet Tricks and wrote for the show until 1986. "He doesn't ever reward himself for a job well done. He always feels that he screwed up. In fact, in all the years I knew him, I never once heard him say he thought something went pretty well. The most he ever gives himself is remarks like, 'Well, I guess that stuck to the tape...
Parents and children should know the warning signals in both pets and wild animals. Loss of coordination, increased aggressiveness or even a strange meow or bark in an unvaccinated pet may be a sign that it should be confined and watched for 10 days. When confronted with a wild animal behaving unnaturally, people should resist the impulse to help and should notify the police. In fact, all wildlife should be observed from a distance. Says Dr. Mark Chassin, New York State health commissioner: "If a nocturnal animal like a raccoon is on a main street at noon in New York...
...BOTTOM LINE: Same orphaned kid, same doggy pet tricks, same bald tycoon, but definitely not the same...