Word: pets
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What's ailing Big Papi? Baseball commentators have weighed in with various pet theories: his stance is wrong, his knee is bothering him, he's impatient, he's a head case. But what do they know...
...Unconsciously, she had been running her fingers back and forth across the shell of her pet turtle, Orlando. Some months ago, in a fit of boredom, she had encrusted its shell with sapphires and peridots, moonstones and jade. Too weary to argue with her, Frederick had paid...
...start with the pet concerns of Sarkozy's star advisers. Sen, a development economist at Harvard, has long argued that health is a big part of living standards--and in 1990 he helped create the United Nations' Human Development Index, which combines health and education data with per capita GDP to give a more complete view of the wealth of nations (the U.S. currently comes in 12th, while on per capita GDP alone, it ranks second). Stiglitz, a Columbia professor and former World Bank chief economist, advocates a "green net national product" that takes into account the depletion of natural...
...Kasai province who never quite fit in politics. He started to come to that conclusion in 2000, when his constituents brought him a baby bonobo as a gift. Tusumba realized the villagers had slaughtered a bonobo family to obtain the little female. Rather than raise her as a pet, he decided to make her part of his family. "I used to eat with her at my table," he says. When Tusumba's term as deputy governor ended in 2004, he started concentrating full time on conservation, knowing he was taking on a very...
...Huaxi has used its wealth to build what might be described as a socialist Disneyland. Residents own shares and earn bonuses pegged to performance, but they must put 95% of their dividend and 80% of their bonus back into the town. This leaves plenty of cash for pet projects. In the village's central plaza oversized statues of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping gaze out at replicas of the U.S Capitol Building and France's Arc du Triomphe. Nearby, the world's largest copper bell tolls for good luck...