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...night, but sadly discovers no one is there. But he does the homework of a rather lazy little boy, Michael, who can't believe his good fortune in finding his homework miraculously done every night. Little Vampire and Michael soon meet and become friends, playing around with LV's pet, a pink, flying dog with an attitude named Hamzat. Much like Tim Burton's movie "The Nightmare Before Chistmas" Sfar's "Little Vampire" series turns creepy creatures into delightful characters. Sfar has a creative flare for the both the visualization of not-too-scary monsters and for smart stories that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Future | 10/3/2003 | See Source »

...have pet peeves, pet subjects, pet grudges, but no companion animals...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions For Carol J. Adams | 10/2/2003 | See Source »

Illinois requires its state winners to sign onto its official platform of preventing youth violence, so Harold arrived in Atlantic City with stories of severe racial and sexual harassment she had suffered as a teenager. But after winning, Harold was set on talking about her pet cause of abstinence. The Miss America Organization balked, unwilling to enter the political morass of the culture wars. Abstinence advocacy is deeply contentious among those who argue for a comprehensive sexual education in schools, and who call abstinence-only education an ultimately damaging and ineffective substitute for AIDS awareness and condom distribution. Cynics suggested...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: There She Is | 9/25/2003 | See Source »

MEANWHILE IN VENEZUELA ... Jurassic Pet Scientists announced the discovery of a giant guinea pig weighing 300 kg that roamed South America 8 million years ago. Goya, as it was nicknamed by paleontologists who excavated its 3-m long skeleton, is the largest rodent ever found - 700 times heavier than its fluffy modern-day cousin. Experts speculated that Goya died out because it was too slow to escape predators and was too big to dive into burrows like its more petite relatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 9/21/2003 | See Source »

...told a story from when he was “a young, naughty Dalai Lama” and enviously watched his teacher feed and pet a parrot...

Author: By J. hale Russell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dalai Lama Delights Crowd | 9/16/2003 | See Source »

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