Word: pets
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...pursuit. He begins at the dawn of man and witnesses the arrival of aliens who zap the dumb apes with higher consciousness. Uninterested in such goings on he goes to sleep and somehow wakes up in the early twenty-first century. Soon he goes from barroom oddity to household pet to valuable commodity. Escaping it all, he falls asleep and wakes up during the apocalypse where he soon becomes a meal for a mutant. It's sort of cute, but its arbitrary storyline robs it of the chance to become any sort of allegory. Since it has been written without...
...prices throughout the economy fall, wreaking havoc on profits, job creation and wages. That threat has clearly passed. Gasoline prices have jumped 20% this year. Other things are getting more expensive too, including milk, cereal, clothing, furniture and hotel rooms. Yet in most cases the increases have been marginal. Pet-food prices are up 3% to 6% this year, after three years with no increases. Computers and other electronics continue to get cheaper. The Consumer Price Index for April, reported last week, rose at an annual rate of just 2.4%. The kind of inflation that would provoke a dramatic...
...Nazi prisoners of war in the United States were permitted to eat in diners and ride in train cars in which uniformed black GI’s could not. Blood supplies were segregated by race, and it was not unusual for hotels and motels to accept the pet dog of white guests, but refuse to rent a room to an African-American...
...Store With its retro 1970s d?cor, designer merchandise and underground-music nights, Cat Store, tel: (852) 2710 9953, is as much a fashionista hangout as it is a haven for pet lovers. The original population of two cats has now swelled to about 15; many customers also bring their own animals, from dogs to chinchillas. And the venue's signature dish? Meow Toast, where chocolate sauce is used to form the face of a feline...
...Pet's Home This relatively new venue, tel: (852) 2891 0031, is a meeting place for lovers of all kinds of dogs. There are four freely roaming resident pooches. Often, customers bring their own, and regulars in need of dog-sitting for a day may drop off their pets, too: the result is cheerful cacophony. A menu of beverages, salads and sandwiches is available for humans...