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James Serpell puts the U.S. gross national pet product at $7.5 billion a year. The figure covers the cost of food and veterinary services for 475 million cats, dogs, birds, rodents, reptiles and aquarium fish. Presumably there are extras such as doggy spas, rhinestone collars, pooper scoopers and what professionals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pet Theories and Pet Peeves in the Company of Animals by James Serpell | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

The course concentrates on about 1,000 colloquialisms drawn from both scholarly sources (Gary Goshgarian's Exploring Language) and popular ones (Rolling Stone). It covers such categories as media talk (show biz, glitz), government lingo (lame duck, on the stump), business idioms (the fine print, three-martini lunch) and cocktail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talking Turkey: Foreigners learn the lingo | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

Perhaps the most comprehensive of all these creative financial schemes is the three-year-old University of Pennsylvania plan, which covers many other costs besides tuition. Prospective Penn parents can pay tuition for all four years now at the 1986 annual rate ($11,200), take an unsecured tuition loan of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Ease the Tuition Load | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

Leifer has shot 27 covers for TIME on subjects ranging from prison life to America's love for cats. Most recently he photographed the heroic proportions of the U.S. aircraft carrier Carl Vinson by suspending a remote camera from the bow of the ship. Formal weddings are tame by those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Jul. 7, 1986 | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

Its population numbers approximately 50 million people, of which 2.3 million live in the capital, Kiev. Ukraine is bordered on the south by the Black Sea; on the west and southwest by Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania; and on the north and northeast by Byelorussia and Russia. It covers more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ukraine | 7/1/1986 | See Source »

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