Word: pets
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...could be the body's way of turning off potential distractions while you're trying to fall asleep, or it might be the result of fluids that rush through the brain while you're supine. Either way, the stifling effect may be an important consideration for reading MRI or PET scans, which take images of the body while you're lying down...
...Princeton and Harvard Law alum, Sarbanes follows his father, five-term Senator Paul, to Congress. He has the pedigree and pet issue (health-care reform) to shine...
...Still, the presence of Xiaomei and hundreds of fellow dog lovers was a sign of changing times in China. Once the reviled symbol of bourgeois indulgence during China's Cultural Revolution and largely wiped out, pet dogs - there are an estimated million or more in Beijing - now provide comfort and status to a rapidly swelling middle class. So, the canine crackdown has provoked a struggle that pits the power of Beijing's newly rich against the reflexive authoritarianism of the ruling Communist Party. Just how the contest plays out will provide telling insight into how Chinese society is adapting...
...That leaves a lot of filler,” he says.FUTURE UNCERTAINIn early 2002, Rees published a GYWO strip that, like many others, featured two nameless office workers talking on the telephone—in this instance, about Bush’s infamous reading of “My Pet Goat” to Florida school-children during Sept. 11 and about reports that terrorists were targeting New York’s Brooklyn Bridge.This strip exemplifies Rees’ philosophy of political comedy: be over-the-top, but never flinch from the fear we all feel. The dialogue goes like...
...movie's reluctant hero, Roddy (voiced by Hugh Jackman), is a pampered, upper-class-English pet mouse. Kept in a literally gilded cage by a nice family in Kensington, Roddy has impeccable manners and a chipper demeanor that can't quite mask his loneliness. So when he's flushed down a toilet into the London sewer system, and discovers a complex underworld underground, he is at first horrified, then thrilled to join a plucky rodent named Rita (Kate Winslet) in her comrades' battle against the pompous toad king (Ian McKellen). This, Roddy realizes, is the bustle and agitation...