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Marianna R. Burt, director of ethical studies for the MSPCA, said yesterday that the group has introduced a bill in the State legislature to strike down a 25-year-old law that allows the pound seizures, adding that the bill would guarantee that pound animals are not used in lab work...
...MSPCA claims that pets are less suited for experiments than specially bred lab animals because they have a lower survival rate. But said, adding that the unknown condition of pound animals before they are caught adversely affect statistical results...
Experiments with pound animals are "clearly ethical" because they are painless and will ultimately benefit humans. Vatner said, adding that any animal killed in a laboratory would eventually be put to death by the MSPCA...
...KISS: A JAMBALAYA by John Frederick Nims; Houghton Mifflin; 68 pages; $11.95 (hardback), $6.95 (paper). Since 1978 John Frederick Nims has been the editor of Poetry, the venerable Chicago-based monthly that helped launch the careers of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. Besides shouldering this tradition and the morose routine of rejecting manuscripts, Nims, 68, has continued to teach, lecture, translate poems from a variety of tongues and edit anthologies. He has plenty of workaday excuses to be a dull boy. Yet The Kiss, the sixth collection of his own poetry, glitters with...
Human Sexual Response first gained national prominence in 1980 with its first album, Figure 14, which included the song "I Want To Be Jackie Onassis." Since then they have released another album. In A Roman Mood, and an extended play record, Pound. Their music, usually characterized as a mix of rock and new wave, attracted enough local fans this weekend to sell out three shows at Boston's Paradise club...