Word: abyssinian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Axelrod last week after approving a New York City plan to fight AIDS by providing drug addicts with sterile needles. The controversial program, which could begin as early as this spring, has sparked vehement protests from law-enforcement agents, clergymen and politicians. Says the Rev. Calvin Butts of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem: "To distribute needles is to cooperate with evil. It is a step to legitimatizing heroin...
...human eye, the animals so often seem mirages: now you see them, now you don't. Later, just after dusk, Abyssinian nightjars discover the magic wash of the headlight beams. The birds flit in and out of the barrels of light, like dolphins frisking before a boat's prow. The Land Cruiser jostles, in four-wheel drive, across black volcanic stones toward the camp, the driver steering by the distant light-speck of the cooking fire...
...high costs are needed to pay for the nearly $2 million that has gone into research for the leukemia vaccine. Still, many people are likely to consider the treatment a bargain if the cat is a champion silver-mackerel tabby worth $2,500 or a $3,000 ruddy-coated Abyssinian. Or just a favorite alley...
...their three children had grown up and moved away, Edward and Carol Harrison in Palatine, Ill., a Chicago suburb, remortgaged their white frame house to add on a $35,000 cattery, complete with breeding pens and outdoor runs. They raise Somalis, a long-haired variation of the Abyssinian. Their kittens of show quality attract a two-year waiting list of prospective owners and sell for $500 to $1,000. Says Harrison, 52, a structural iron worker: "We enjoy traveling around the country and making friends at cat shows...
Probably the first domestic to appear in a painting (circa 2000 B.C., Egypt), the ruddy-coated Abyssinian is a playful and spirited shorthair. It is also one of the most expensive: a pet-quality red Aby kitten can cost $800, and one promising to become a grand champion can fetch $3,000. The American Shorthair is sometimes incorrectly called the alley cat. Muscular and intelligent, plain or tabby-patterned, it is to most people the essence of the feline, a cat-cat, the kind that shows up for breakfast and moves in with the children. In the purebred version, shorthair...