Word: veterinarian
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...always been everybody's good girl, sacrificing her dreams (she wanted to be a veterinarian) to others' expectations--marriage, motherhood, working in the family business. Her husband's philandering having broken this unwritten contract with convention, she is free to re-examine her options. In the process she undermines her father's authority, encourages her mother to join the revolution and, finally, goes back to school and, possibly, into a more realistic relationship with her now chastened mate...
...have weak hearts. English bulldogs have such enormous heads that pups often have to be delivered by cesarean section. Newfoundlands can drop dead from cardiac arrests. Chinese Shar-Peis, the wrinkly dogs that don't seem to fit into their skin, have congenital skin disorders. And Irish setters, laments veterinarian Michael Fox, a vice president of the Humane Society of the U.S., "are so dumb they can't find their way to the end of the leash...
...being marketed by International Canine Genetics Inc., a research company based in Malverne, Pa., which is already training vets to use it. "A tighter-fitting hip joint is better, and we now have the technology to determine which hips are tighter," says Dr. Gail Smith, an engineer and veterinarian who developed the test. "This will help people select the best breeding dogs...
Consider the case of Dr. Robert A. Lopez, a veterinarian from Westport, N.Y., who won the Ig Nobel in entomology for putting ear mites from cats into his own ears. What reason could a veterinarian have for experimenting on himself...
James E. Nave a Las Vegas veterinarian who attended Sen. Kennedy's fund-raiser, says that though he does not agree with Kennedy's views-especially on health care--he enjoyed meeting a Kennedy in person...