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...lonely as well, White is too self-possessed to fall for this road-company Andy Griffith. Still, she does begin to think he may be innocent of murder. That impression grows when his girlfriend turns up. She is young and gorgeous, and as empty-headed as a golden retriever pup. Or so it seems, as she backs up her man with a series of contradictory stories. But she is also very tall, and the prints of her large hands, it develops, are all over the victim's home. Suspicion shifts, and the con man changes his already woozy account, apparently...
...April 1, four students pitched a blue pup tent in the middle of campus and began a hunger strike, demanding the creation of an ethnic studies department. Several days later, more than 100 protestors barricaded themselves inside Hamilton Hall, forcing classes to meet elsewhere...
When Coupland does deal with more interesting characters, like Cathy and Pup-Tent, the dysfunctional punk rock couple form "My Hotel Year," the story itself begins to suffer. Before the story can go anywhere, Pup-Tent leaves, and the narrator intrudes to give more self-absorbed commentary. "Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are the people who are unable to connect with the profound..."Just as we are unable to connect the terminally vague...
...Humane Society of the U.S. More Americans spend more than $8 billion a year on their dogs, not counting the initial purchase. The AKC alone raked in $29 million last year, about three-fourths of it from the $25 or more it charges to register each pedigreed pup and provide a copy of its family tree. But the AKC annual report shows that the club cut its grants for education and research into the health of dogs from $1.675 million...
...have some insight into the causes of these disorders. "Canine genetic diseases," he says, "are now being defined at the molecular level, and the mapping of the canine genome is at last under way." Scientists have located the genes that cause muscular dystrophy in golden retrievers, and "shaking pup" syndrome in Welsh springer spaniels. They're working on identifying the genes responsible for failure-to-thrive metabolic problems in giant Schnauzers, bleeding disorders in Scottish terriers and Doberman pinschers, and the hereditary deafness that affects about 30% of Dalmatians. And they believe hip dysplasia, the crippling condition that afflicts Jake...