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...assessments are only one part of a broader effort shelters nationwide are making to try to ensure more, and more successful, pet adoptions. In line with a trend toward making animal shelters look less like industrial death camps, Boulder's red cinder-block multi-level complex with estate-quality wrought-iron fencing is located in a neighborhood of office parks, and resembles, inside, an upscale daycare center. The gift shop sells hemp dog collars, Outward Hound folding travel bowls, chews that act as doggy dental floss, and Santa-themed holiday pet bandanas. There's a vet clinic and an obedience...
Research has long documented that people may pay for shorter slumber with a shorter life span. Sleep is the body's opportunity to rest and repair what the day has wrought, and if your heart is working at its 3 p.m. rate when the clock hits 3 a.m., it's simply going to wear out faster. In the new study, epidemiologist Jane Ferrie questioned 7,700 British civil servants about their sleep habits over an eight-year period and found that those who slept six to eight hours nightly at the beginning of the study but decreased the amount...
...inevitable exigencies of the endgame that you're probably about to endure. If you're the child of senior in danger of losing his citizenship in the rational world, you have to have thought about how to handle a parent's endgame. In writer-director Tamara Jenkins's intricately wrought movie, the old guy's children are flirting with middle age without much to show for it. Wendy is an unproduced playwright prone to bad fantasies (health) and good ones (she imagines she's won a Guggenheim fellowship). She's having an affair with a remarkably agreeable married...
...infamous Papa John’s campus rep Merrily E. McGugan ’09 (see the March 15, 2007 article, “Papa John’s... Pimp My Ride!”).And others hardly have to search outside of Harvard’s prestigious wrought-iron gates, like Kiehl’s campus rep Ravi K. Manglani ’08.In the fall of 2006, after responding to a listing on the Harvard Student Employment Office website, Manglani began work as the first official Harvard campus rep for Kiehl’s cosmetics...
...Nelson does an impressive job of incorporating old school-soul ballads from the likes of platinum artist Anthony Hamilton with classic jams that reflect the decade. The music helps lift the movie from a simple “based-on-a-true-story” flick to a film wrought with a sense of empowerment and empathy despite the harsh implications of the plot. “American Gangster” is, in its own way, this year’s “The Departed”; no doubt, there will be an Oscar nod for Crowe, Washington...