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...swimming 74, Penn St. 39 Team W L T Pet. RPI* 18 1 0 .947 Harvard* 14 4 1 .763 Clarkson* 14 5 0 .737 Cornell 13 5 1 .684 Yale* 12 7 1 .625 St. Lawrence* 10 9 0 .526 Colgate* 8 11 0 .421 Princeton 6 11 2 .368 Brown 6 14 0 .300 Vermont 4 15 0 .211 Dartmouth 3 15 1 .184 Army 0 11 0 .000 *Clinched home ice for quarterfinal playoffs. *Clinched a quarterfinal playoff spot...
...dogs, for whom the product is intended, is a tendency to develop silky coats. Birth control in a can, though, is not yet suitable for cats, since the finicky felines do not eat as regularly as dogs. If the FDA approves Carnation's application, contraceptive chow will be on pet-food shelves by year...
...Suarez legend continues to grow in Bolivia, even if many of the stories told about him are probably wildly exaggerated. He has been seen carrying a gold-plated handgun and keeps a pet leopard, said to wear a gold collar studded with diamonds, near his side at his ranch in the Beni. In interviews with journalists, Suarez has boasted that he has hired Libyan "experts" to train his security force and that his ranchland retreats are defended by missile-carrying aircraft. He also likes to buy newspaper space to lecture his countrymen on the corruption in their government...
Under the supervision of Scott County Attorney Kathleen Morris, the number of arrests for alleged child sexual abuse grew. Fear spread through the once tranquil community. Children related detailed incidents of sodomy, incest and bestiality. One young girl reported being forced to eat a cat and a pet gerbil, "fur and all." A ten-year-old boy said he was kidnaped and driven to a party where whip-wielding women in see-through clothes forced him into sexual acts with other children and adults that were photographed...
...quite common in most languages to add a diminutive suffix to a name (in Russian, ya, in Greek, oula, in Irish, een) so as to express fond feelings. Psychologists might suggest that the purpose of these diminutions is to assert the superiority of lover to loved one ("my pet"), but the effect diminishes all parties. We have created these words as verbal comforters, warm safety zones, wherein anyone, no matter how high and mighty, is free to sound like a nitwit...