Word: veterinarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...girl this summer who goes to the University of Vermont. She loves animals and is studying to be a veterinarian or a zookeeper. She is also learning sign language to supplement what she knows will be a meager salary. I don't suppose too many Harvard freshmen come in hoping to land a great zookeeping job after four years. That dream is far too small to bear the Harvard insignia. We have to think bigger and better, to reach for the stars. But how can I reach for something that I can't even identify? How will I know that...
...first glimpse into the mysteries of sex came when I was 10 and wandered into our barn to see a veterinarian artificially inseminating a long row of dairy cows. That's when I first suspected that sex is not for the fainthearted. The most difficult moments of my parenthood (so far) involved my fumbling attempts to discuss sex with my adolescent daughter. But I know that kids take their views and values from their parents. They look to us for direction. So we have to talk...
...things from me." What a great answer! A conversation about sex is a perfect time to convey your values to your kids. It's far better for them to learn the facts of life from you than from Ally McBeal, the Starr Report, Billy in biology class or...a veterinarian and a barn full of cows...
Investment banking supposedly develops management skills. But what better way to hone one's organizational abilities than to organize and run the household of a successful entrepreneur, practically a mini-corporation in itself? From paying house bills, to managing the staff, to scheduling facial and veterinarian appointments, the Hollywood assistant not only have responsibility of I-banking recruits, but a variety of activity to amuse themselves with as well...
...Fall down and you're history," says veterinarian Terry Springer as we crawl out on a rickety catwalk over a beach in Alaska's Pribilof Islands. Below us, thousands of fur seals flop around in a frenzy. The 600-lb. bulls herd their harems to protect them from rival males emerging from the brisk waters of the Bering Sea. As the big males toss the 110-lb. females around like beach toys, my first thought is that male fur seals have not yet embraced feminism. Springer, though, has no time for such anthropomorphic musing. The Colorado State University scientist...