Word: pets
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...Closing with a wish for peace that elicited repeated applause from the audience, the charismatic vice abbot emphasized compassion in his remarks. He said that he had never before seen such kindness and love between animals and humans as he had witnessed here in the U.S. between doting pet owners and the creatures with whom they share their homes...
...bittersweet consolation of outgrowing your favorite children’s books is the chance to revisit them as adults with keener eyes. One of my own pet series of grade-school readers featured Amelia Bedelia, a bonneted and primly smocked English maid with a shaky grasp of her own native language. Much to the chagrin of her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, Amelia comically (and sometimes catastrophically) misinterprets their housekeeping instructions, thanks to her literalist approach to language...
...Food and Drug Administration has approved the first diet drug for the more than 3 million obese dogs in the country, our Jan. 22 issue reported. If you're wondering how a dog's life came to this, our April 26, 1968, story on pet foods provides some insight...
...Americans traditionally treat their four-legged household pets like members of the family. And they feed them accordingly. Today, even table scraps are not good enough-which means that the nation's 3,000 dog- and cat-food makers and marketers contemplate 1968 sales of over $900 million, up $300 million since 1965. At that price, the doggy dish runs all the way from chicken croquettes to chunks of pure beef. Pet-food makers insist that there is a little of the gourmand in every dog and cat, and last year they spent $52.5 million to advertise their argument-more...
...with in the country's congress: Fernando Collor de Melo, a former president impeached in 1992 on corruption charges; Paulo Maluf, a two-time Mayor of Sao Paulo convicted of fraud; and Clodovil, a camp television presenter and former stylist to the stars who, when asked to name some pet projects he would bring to the new parliament replied, "I have no projects." And this was after Brazilians voted out half of the former congress, which was already considered one of the most unproductive and corrupt in Brazilian history. The outgoing parliamentarians were so recalcitrant that Lula, in his first...