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...still trying to come to terms with being a third-generation survivor. I’ve grown up listening to my second-generation father arguing with my first-generation grandparents about whether I can climb to the top of the jungle gym, or pet a dog, or know about The War at all. With survival comes an extreme over-protectiveness of one’s children, and by extension, one’s grandchildren. My grandparents don’t want me taking risks, but my father doesn’t want me to grow up fearful of the world...
...HUMAN ANIMAL IS A BIZARRE BEAST. HAVING popularized pet yoga, doggie "bark mitzvahs" and other novel anthropomorphisms, animal lovers keep blurring the lines between man and his animal-kingdom friends. And sometimes the animals do the blurring. --By Jeremy Caplan...
...disconcertingly, many also appear profoundly depressed and fearful, and no wonder. They are orphans, rescued from poachers. One of the subjects, a young gorilla named Pumbu, saw her parents killed for bush meat. Another, a sad-eyed Indonesian orangutan called Bonny , lost her mother and was sold as a pet. Mollison hopes that "Face to Face" will raise awareness of the plight of apes. He need not worry. If anything could encourage us to make common cause with our simian cousins, it would be these unforgettable images...
Georgi’s pet project, though, was bringing together a group of professors to take on additional advising duties, creating a more supportive system for the undergraduates he cared so much about. And he succeeded because he’s not afraid of making people angry. “He doesn’t have a lot of tact, so if he doesn’t think someone is smart, he’ll just say it,” Franklin says...
Barlow’s fans continually requested their own pet sounds in an atmosphere reminiscent of a gathering of old friends. Barlow graciously accepted many requests, and mixed enjoyable crowd banter in with his mellifluous singing. Despite a history of rough musical relations (he was booted from Dinosaur Jr. because of his overbearing nature, and was responsible also for the breakups of both Sebadoh and the Folk Implosion), Barlow came off as neither stern nor aloof, and affably shared memories and stories with the audience all night...