Word: pooch
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...Dutch company, is "you won't end up with 200 million little polystyrene balls on the floor." The giant rectangles and "islands" are made from supersturdy nylon and filled with body-molding "memory balls." Choose from 16 colors, three Marimekko prints - and there's even a model for your pooch. fatboy.nl
TAIWANESE RETRIEVER A woman in Taiwan owes her baby's life to her pooch, which pulled the drowning newborn from a toilet. The mother had passed out during an unexpected solo childbirth
...talk in coming weeks with W.A. officials about sampling there too, Wilton says it's hard to see how any dingo colonies can escape hybridization in the long term: "In remote areas Aboriginal communities have domestic dogs and landowners have working dogs and tourists have their pooch in the back of the car, so there's not really anywhere that's isolated." Once inter-breeding starts, "it's very difficult to wind back the clock - it's like a ball rolling down a hill." While remote areas could still harbor pure populations, Wilton believes "they won't stay pure unless...
...which friends back home hope will pressure the junta to find them - and which the junta manipulates to burnish its image. The situation is ripe for satire, and Tan pours it over her tour bus of fools: the television dog-show host who thinks diplomacy is a lot like pooch training, the academic couple who can't stop intellectually one-upping each other, the dangerously do-gooding heiress. Saving Fish from Drowning (the title comes from a Buddhist fisherman's rationalization of his craft) ends without clear winners. And Tan neatly frames the dilemma: To help the oppressed...
...every time I argue for Yale-style housing, or for rescinding randomization, I get shot down. So I’m going to try a new approach. Rather than moaning about some other system, like a pooch howling at the moon, we’re going to diagnose the problems with our own system, systematically...