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...next flight is scheduled for this week), it could take five years and at least $2 billion before a full-scale Delta Clipper is ready for business. But aerospace executives are already dreaming about the day when getting into orbit costs no more than a transatlantic flight. Among their pet ideas: nuclear-waste disposal, space- based advertising and low-earth-orbit tourism. A weekend visit to a space station, anyone...
With a few simple measures, families can minimize the risks. First, they should get pets inoculated, particularly those that might encounter other animals. Last year health officials destroyed 290 rabid cats and 182 infected dogs. In rural and suburban areas, people should keep pets behind fences so they will have little contact with wild animals; garbage and pet food should be kept indoors to discourage furry intruders from entering backyards...
Parents and children should know the warning signals in both pets and wild animals. Loss of coordination, increased aggressiveness or even a strange meow or bark in an unvaccinated pet may be a sign that it should be confined and watched for 10 days. When confronted with a wild animal behaving unnaturally, people should resist the impulse to help and should notify the police. In fact, all wildlife should be observed from a distance. Says Dr. Mark Chassin, New York State health commissioner: "If a nocturnal animal like a raccoon is on a main street at noon in New York...
...BOTTOM LINE: Same orphaned kid, same doggy pet tricks, same bald tycoon, but definitely not the same...
...says Merrill Markoe, Late Night's first head writer. "It was just Calvert being unable to read cue cards particularly well. It was a trait with which he was so consistent that we could call it a character. That was the character: there was no character." As for Stupid Pet Tricks, Markoe dreamed it up for Letterman's NBC 1980 morning show -- which he, not NBC, owns -- and reused it on Late Night. "I came up with a really good sequel to Stupid Pet Tricks," adds Markoe. "If anyone wants to contact me, for $3.5 million I can tell them...