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...gentleman who every few months came calling on Johnny Carson. Stewart would uncoil himself in the Tonight Show guest seat, tell one of his hilariously laborious anecdotes, perhaps read one of the verses that, in 1989, made him a best-selling poet. One bit of doggerel elegized his pet golden retriever: "And now he's dead./ And there are nights when I think I feel him/ Climb upon our bed and lie between us,/ And I pat his head./ And there are nights when I think/ I feel that stare/ And I reach out my hand to stroke his hair...
...alien" on your cover--with its predictable oversize head and creepy doe eyes--prompted one of my pet peeves: illustrations of extraterrestrial creatures that look just like humans. Get real! We humans are the product of a host of improbable accidents. Science tells us that space and life are weird beyond belief. And so are real aliens. ALAN M. PERLMAN Highland Park...
...JonBenet's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, "but not the sole focus." The prosecutor cautions that "our job, since we don't know the truth, is to keep an open mind, not to have some kind of tunnel vision and certainly not to try to cram evidence into some pet theory...
...most successful businesses are the ones that can read the new economy and exploit its moods. There are fortunes to be made, for instance, by recognizing the potential of fish as furniture. Fish have become a perfect pet for the 1990s, where no one's around much but everyone wants his house to be all the homier anyway. So aquarium sales are through the roof. That is good news at Petland, a Chillicothe-based company whose success is nurtured as much by the weaknesses of America's two-income economy as by its strengths. Thirty years ago, Ed Kunzelman...
Tamagotchi, the latest toy craze in Japan, arrived last week in a Brink's truck at Manhattan's FAO Schwarz. The egg-shaped pet chick has a virtual life right on a key chain, where it's hatched, lives and dies--virtually. When it beeps, the owner is supposed to pet it by pressing its buttons. The chick even leaves virtual droppings to be cleaned up. It sells on Japan's black market for $500, but the suggested U.S. retail price is $15. The profits are real...