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...their own explosion. Calling themselves Greenpeace, the Canadians went on to stage demonstrations against sealing and whaling, all with media-savvy stunts, like hovering over a seal pup in front of a huge icebreaker. Even so, Watson quit Greenpeace as too timid and started the more radical Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, whose tactics include ramming whaling ships. Eventually Hunter quit as well, but the two left a big legacy: a wavemaking outfit ever ready for new battles, the latest against genetically modified foods--or, in Greenspeak, Frankenfoods...
...official greeter for ATLANTA DOGWORKS is Jumpin' Jess, an Australian shepherd owned by Greg Tresan. The two were three-time world finalists in disk-dog competition, but now that Jess has retired, she's "ambassadog" at Tresan's boarding and training facility on 15 pastoral acres in Ball Ground, 50 miles north of Atlanta. Tresan doesn't hold with anthropomorphizing. He wants you to enjoy your dog's natural behavior but also "bring them into your environment as welcome members of the household." At DogWorks, you can choose training in obedience, agility, herding and, of course, catching Frisbees. Daily boarding...
While Nancy Bogdanski's three children are still in school this June, she'll leave her husband at home in Durham, Conn., and take off for Vermont with the family's Newfoundland Mickey and Australian shepherd Tucker. "The more you do with a dog," says Bogdanski, "you develop a stronger bond, and you have a deeper appreciation of how intelligent they are." (Telephone...
...Pope will visit Fatima in Portugal to beatify two shepherd children to whom the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared there in 1917. For John Paul, the visit will have a mystical significance: his personal motto is Totus tuus (All yours--giving himself to Mary). When he survived the 1981 assassination attempt by Mehmet Ali Agca, the Pope noted that the attack occurred on the anniversary of the Fatima apparition, and he credited his survival to intercession by the Blessed Virgin...
...stresses per line, separated in the middle by a strong pause, or caesura, with the third stress in each line alliterating with one or both of the first two. Heaney follows these rules to the letter in such lines as "No one could miss their murderous feuding" or "The shepherd of people was sheared of his life." But he also regularly works supple variations on this pattern, letting the Anglo-Saxon rhythms echo as an undercurrent in lines that would seem, in another context, almost prosaic: "She turned then to the bench where her boys...