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...Kevin Nieusma, sales manager for Destron-Fearing, which has pioneered a new technology that allows pet owners to track their animals with a hand-held scanner. The company began development of the technology after the its owner had his prize horse stolen...
...YORK: Bernhard Goetz filed bankruptcy on Monday to prevent authorities from auctioning off his pet chinchilla and his guinea pig Squeaky. With assets of just over $2,000, Goetz will be hard pressed to pay the $43 million a jury awarded last week to Darrell Cabey, a victim of Goetz's subway shooting incident. The legal action will keep authorities from Goetz's assets until at least mid-June, when a bankruptcy trustee will reviews his debts with creditors. "It prevents a sheriff or marshal and New York State from coming in and just simply ransacking Bernie's house, having...
...FIRST TIME I WAS HONORED BEYOND DESERVING was on a tour of a Hollywood studio as a child. For some reason, I was chosen to go onstage and pet a fake gorilla while it growled dramatically. I got a big hand. For several months after I was badly hurt by a mail bomb, it was the same story, roughly speaking: gratifying but undeserved applause. The public figured that computer technology had been (in some sense) the intended victim, and so I became Mr. Computer Science. I was proud to represent a field that has contributed so much...
...same purpose; since it began, funding has decreased by five percent. Lotteries have been windfalls for these states, so why are the earmarked programs not benefiting as they should? The reason is that lottery revenues supplant instead of supplement funds, allowing the previous monies to be diverted to politicians' pet projects...
...matter, few of the cognoscenti would argue. The freshest, most beguiling film to win an Oscar last week was an epic you may have never heard of: A Close Shave, Nick Park's stop-motion, comedy-thriller mini-masterpiece about a dog named Gromit and his pet Englishman, Wallace...