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...cottages surround an indoor courtyard where heftier hounds can trot on a treadmill and quieter pups can cluster for story time and a snack. An outside yard has a pool and an agility course with hoops, tunnels and a slalom run. You can request custom packages that include a Yappy Hour with gourmet biscuits or outdoor picnics for your dog and a few closest pals. "When we pick him up, he never wants to leave," says Stephanie Ruthberg, 11, of Beau, her family's Bouvier des Flandres. "He thinks of it as camp, so when we go away...
Unfortunately, political rhetoric and fear still surround the debate, and many politicians are unwilling to press for increased rehabilitative programming in prisons, despite their proven effectiveness in cutting crime and saving taxpayer money. My personal experience has attested to this as well...
...Just as Antonakos's other neon installations take on different qualities from the changing effects of light and space, Time Boxes 2000 is about the actuation of the work of art in the surround of time. When the project was inaugurated in 1974, its departure from a concurrent mode of conceptual art, the earthworks movement, could not have been more pronounced. Both forms of conceptual work take on the way changing conditions act upon the art object. But whereas earthworks make a cult of entropy and the dissipation of the art object through time, Antonakos's time capsules are instead...
Grandin said that "squeeze machines"--large devices that surround a person with gentle pressure--can help reduce anxiety in autistic children so that they can enjoy human contact. Grandin invented the first such machine as a teenager...
...Vagina. There I've said it. I am saying it to celebrate my womanhood because what you don't say becomes a secret which shame, guilt and embarrassment surround." So opens Eve Ensler's dynamic and candid play The Vagina Monologues, now showing at the Agassiz Theater. In its original form, Ensler's singular work was made to lead the audience towards a celebration of the "sustenance, humor and creativity" that encompass the woman's discovery of self. Indeed, her avowed purpose in writing the piece was to communicate the abuse of the vagina to the general public...