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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think the Pound Seizure Law will be repealed," Dr. Ronald Hunt, director of Harvard's Animal Resource Center (ARC) says, "but in politics anything is possible. It is an emotionally charged issue, and I know the people in the State House would love to see it go away. However, the use of animals in medical research is necessary for the elimination of diseases. This research translates directly into the lessening of suffering of millions of humans. And the use of pound dogs translates into lessening of spiraling medical costs...
...thing about anti-vivisectionists is at least they're aiming towards something concrete," Ralph Charlwood, assistant director of the ARC, says, walking along the endless corridors of Harvard's Animal Resource Center. "This is where I differ with the MSPCA," he continues. "What's bad for a dog is bad for mice and rats as well. I don't care what kind of animal it is. What's good for one is good for them...
...taken down for safekeeping during the two World Wars. Today the horses of San Marco remain the most famous bronzes to survive from the ancient world. But fame does not immunize bronze against pollution, and so to save the horses from the ravages of the fallout from the industrial center of Mestre in Venice, they have been taken down from the church. They will be put in a museum and replaced, on the basilica's fa&#amp;231;ade, by carefully copied understudies...
...competition. It was almost straight down, the distance, precisely, from hurrah to blah. The time of the drop was nearly instantaneous. One moment Lake Placid was the most tumultuous news spot on earth, the next it was an amiable litter of vacancy signs. One moment it was the riveting center of the media's eldritch universe; the next it was just another out-of-the-way resort more or less waiting for next summer's convention of volunteer firemen...
That, in fact, was the biggest news in the village the day after it plunged out of the center of the world. Cars and buses and trucks were driving up and down the village's narrow main thoroughfare. Gone was the animated pedestrian mall achieved by blockades, state troopers and an exasperating, temporary one-way traffic system. Gone were the strollers, gawkers, jugglers, hawkers, hustlers, evangels, barterers. Gone were the ski-pantsed snow bunnies and gone, too, were the gaggles of boozy young celebrators lurching about singing God Bless Our Hockey Team to the tune of God Bless America...