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...Most get hooked on herding after buying a dog that needs a job. "Border collies are incredibly smart, but they get psychotic if they don't have work," says Lilliam Cummings, 42, whose two dogs devoured carpets, sofas and a Don Henley CD before discovering sheep. Typically, the pet is given an instinct test--introduced to livestock under controlled circumstances. If the dog has the genes, its joy in the chase proves irresistible. "When we saw the look in his eyes," says Ted Ondrak of his Bouvier des Flandres, "we said, 'We've gotta try this.'" The Ondraks wound...
...anything, it was helping lawmakers who had never worn a uniform make smarter decisions about what American soldiers should and should not be asked to do. He spoke out passionately about the need to aid the Nicaraguan contras. But even early on, he was not just Reagan's pet. In September 1983, barely nine months after taking office, he loudly opposed keeping U.S. Marines in Lebanon an additional 18 months. Though lots of speakers referred to Vietnam, McCain was among the few who had actually been there. Still, he lost, the Marines stayed--and a month later, when the bombing...
...iguana!" It's not yet 8 a.m. on Monday morning, and John McCain is marching through the living room of his house in Phoenix, Ariz., headed for the back bedrooms, leading a reporter who is asking about the New Hampshire primary on a tour of his children's pet collection. Before his wife Cindy can holler back--"Just don't show him the bedroom! It's a mess!"--McCain has swept past the wide-open door to their bedroom, where clothes are strewn across the floor and bed, into the lair of McCain's 13-year-old son Jack, where...
...crucial to pop music? Some critics have optimistically observed that the Backstreet Boys might take their music in hand and morph from tools of industry to pop-craft artists, just as the Beach Boys went from the straight-up teen fun of "Surfin' USA" to the angst of Pet Sounds and the mastery of "Good Vibrations." Then again, Brian Littrell is no Brian Wilson, and such a turnaround seems unlikely...
...rhythms, it really just sounds like the Beach Boys redux. Listen to B&S' 3..6..9..Seconds of Light or the piano on "Seeing Other People" or the guitar on "If You're Feeling Sinister" and then go to the library and check out "Sloop John B." from Pet Sounds. Such musical similarities can't be a coincidence, considering the thematic overlap between, for example, Pet Sounds and If You're Feeling Sinister. In the former, a boy goes from youthful abandon to mature disenchantment over the course of the album; in the latter those themes are visited...