Word: pets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...money decade spawned a prodigious magazine boom, with titles crammed three deep into every trendy market niche. Some 2,800 new magazines flew off the presses in the past decade, 584 in the past year alone. Foreign media barons opened their wallets wide, and American entrepreneurs -- from Hartz Mountain pet-food magnate Leonard Stern to Frances Lear (ex-wife of TV producer Norman) -- rushed into the circulation game...
...those of a year-old baby and his mother Vickie Lee Evans, 18. Reeves had been told that the two corpses had been recovered from a fire in a trailer home. Without performing autopsies, he issued death certificates. He was wrong. The smaller body was that of a pet rabbit. The mistake was discovered a few weeks ago, when Gary Rotondo, Evans' live-in companion, returned to the burned-out trailer and found the remains of a baby boy, who was later identified...
...first wildlife walk, in 1982, Werikhe traveled 2,400 km (1,500 miles), from Kampala, Uganda, through Kenya to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and back to Mombasa, with only a pet python named Survival for company. Lecturing to villagers and schoolchildren, he raised about $30,000 for conservation groups. In 1988 Werikhe went to Europe, covering 2,900 km (1,800 miles) in 135 days, and collected almost $1 million for rhino sanctuaries. Partly as a result of Werikhe's efforts, Kenya's black rhino population -- once as low as 400 animals -- has been slowly increasing since 1988. When Werikhe...
...most of the other actors, a motley crew culled from the director's pet sources -- kitsch movies of the '50s, tabloid headlines of the '70s and '80s -- who could have met nowhere in the world but on a John Waters set. Surfside heartthrob Troy Donahue. Media minx Joey Heatherton. Ever fashionable Polly Bergen. Andy Warhol icon Joe Dallesandro. Punk pioneer Iggy Pop. Legendary bad actress Susan Tyrrell. Norman Mailer's son Stephen. As a smarmily sadistic guard, Willem Dafoe. The parents of slutty Wanda (Traci Lords) are assayed by Ozzie and Harriet's own David Nelson and, in her movie...
...that death is a natural component of life. Generations Together, for example, is developing a curriculum dealing with separation and loss. It will help children cope not only with an elder companion's demise but also with other issues, like their parents' divorce or the loss of a favorite pet...