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EVER SINCE THE DAY Washington Irving disembarked in Liverpool to sketch the English countryside. American writers have ventured to foreign locales in search of a sensibility they have felt they could only capture abroad. Henry Adams and Ezra Pound. Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald all passed their moments in Europe against the backdrop of a culture that far overshadowed their...
...getting boring. In one particularly stunning warm-up sequence, for instance, he follows the team through all five pentathlon events: A dozen shotputters twirl into one perfect throw, and the high jump becomes a graceful cascade of falling torsos. Sweat drips heavily to a moist track; muscled, streamlined bodies pound the turf; and the camera zooms artfully to catch that last look of desperate concentration...
Marianna R. Burt, director of ethical studies for the MSPCA, said yesterday that the group has introduced a bill in the State legislature to strike down a 25-year-old law that allows the pound seizures, adding that the bill would guarantee that pound animals are not used in lab work...
...MSPCA claims that pets are less suited for experiments than specially bred lab animals because they have a lower survival rate. But said, adding that the unknown condition of pound animals before they are caught adversely affect statistical results...
Experiments with pound animals are "clearly ethical" because they are painless and will ultimately benefit humans. Vatner said, adding that any animal killed in a laboratory would eventually be put to death by the MSPCA...