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Considering a career in the booming pet industry? The folks at Pet Sitters International want you. Very much. The professional organization, which offers accreditation courses in pet sitting, among other things, will hold its fifth annual convention in New Orleans this week. A preview...
...ATTEND? Says the brochure: "Imagine a huge room filled with the most successful, hardworking and talented pet sitters in the world... Just think how much creative energy and brain power would emanate from such a group...if you've attended [before], you know the magic...
Money and marketing are just part of the lure. This minimalist horror film, which appears to be a self-filmed documentary of three filmmakers who get lost in the Maryland woods while tracking down a local witch legend, has become the Elvis, the E.T., the Pet Rock of 1999--the hottest item in a hot summer. Shagadelic--what's that? Jar Jar Binks--remind me. Ricky Martin--isn't he Dino's kid? For this moment (and treasure it, because it may vanish as fast as it materialized), Blair Witch is the must-attend social event for plugged-in America...
...news when he came out of the incubator, when he first went on formula, when he got a haircut or lost a tooth. The family never called him John-John; a reporter heard his father chasing after the fleeing toddler, shouting "John, John," and thought it was a pet name. And so it became our name for him, not theirs, which was fitting, since like the rest of the family, he has always been partly a myth of our own making, a mirror, a mirage...
...perfect for an era without air conditioning--and M&M's became a staple of American life, finding their way into World War II G.I. ration kits and children's school lunch bags. The treat, along with the firm's other name brands (from 3 Musketeers to the pet food Sheba), earned the Mars family a $16 billion fortune. An eccentric recluse, he gave only one interview in his life--to a candy-industry magazine...