Word: fetched
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Bush steps out of the car to finish the conversation in private, looking over the plants growing at the edge of the house. "That is good news," he says, showing only the slightest new enthusiasm after he rings off the phone. As I stand to leave, he starts playing fetch with Spot. Using a purple tennis racquet, he hits a tennis ball, brown from slobber. If I hadn't been there maybe he'd be on those phones, pacing, torturing the TV's rabbit ears to get clearer reception. But instead he starts talking about Yale. "I must admit that...
...petition the Supremes three weeks ago had been his; some advisers warned that he might not want them involved, but he had felt their judgment was crucial to the legitimacy of any final outcome. Now it looked as if the Justices might yet save him. Afterward, he played fetch with his dog Spot and then chopped down some cedar. He left it to his lieutenants to wage...
...book advance. She's fed up with others writing books about her and her rocky marriage. Word is that Clinton will tell her side of the story about life as First Lady (with details from her marriage and the impeachment) in a memoir that could fetch at least $7 million from publishers...
...that the French magot population may be as high as several hundred thousand. "This is an endangered species protected by international accords," says Serge Belais, president of France's Society for the Protection of Animals. "And neither North African or French customs officials seem too concerned." Baby magots can fetch up to $90 apiece in Africa--and sell for $1,200 in France. But they are susceptible to illness and often die in captivity. Their bites can transmit such diseases as TB and hepatitis. "People are risking their lives by adopting these creatures," says Belais, "and hastening the magot...
...Reader, which uses tiny embedded computer chips to produce different ambient sounds on each page of a children's book; and the Reading-Eye Dog, a robotic pet that uses a text-to-voice synthesizer to read out anything you care to put in front of it (making it fetch the paper as well as read it to you may take a little while longer...