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...article "The Great American Animal Farm" states: "In every city in America, abandoned dogs rampage in wild packs through vacant lots and nocturnal streets. In New York City alone, 38,000 people annually require medical attention for dog bites." In fact, around the country, better than 85% of all bites are inflicted by owned dogs, usually between 2 and 7 p.m. (not nocturnal), and less than 1% of all bites involve more than one animal (not packs). A dog bite costs the victim an average of $50, and better than 60% of the victimized population are children; better than...
...notes, bound in handsome leather and stamped HOW I DID IT. "What a fruitcake!" young Frankstein cries out in disbelief. He is quickly seduced, though, by the siren call of Victor's madness and is soon trying to reproduce the experiments. He is aided by a shapely but vacant assistant called Inga (Teri Garr) and by the stainless-steel housekeeper Frau Blucher, played by Cloris Leachman, who does a skillful and witty parody on the Judith Anderson role in Hitchcock's Rebecca...
...election in April, where, so far, no substantial Republican opposition has been found for him. Though no scandal has touched Daley personally, questions have been raised in the press about the propriety of his secret ownership with his wife of a real estate holding company that made purchases of vacant lots in a city auction. He has freely acknowledged influencing the placement of millions of dollars worth of city insurance with an agency that employed one of his sons. Neither issue is expected to have much impact on the voters. Daley's prospects seem excellent for remaining the longest...
...parakeets are fleeing the cage and filching the fruit from Midwestern orchards. Land snails slither out of home aquariums to gnaw the stucco outside. A fugitive kangaroo has hopped 250 miles through Illinois and zapped several cops. In every city in America, abandoned dogs rampage in wild packs through vacant lots and nocturnal streets. In New York City alone, 38,000 people annually require medical attention for dogbites. In rural areas, wild dogs cause at least $5 million in cattle losses each year...
Spence said the "sad irony of public housing is that there are long waiting lists while substantial vacancies exist." He said, "The projects' designs are sometimes so undesirable that people turn them down." Vacant apartments reduce the overall efficiency of the CHA and increase vandalism, Spence added...