Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Pet Health

And I mean everything.

clipped from blogs.wsj.com So you know the Merck Manual, the trusty reference on health for docs and patients? As of this week, there’s a Merck Manual about pets. The book (full name: The Merck/Merial Manual For Pet Health) is 1,345 pages long, so rather than plow through the whole thing, we cheated a little — we got on the phone with Cynthia Kahn, the editor, and Scott Line, a vet who was co-editor on the book. The factoids came fast and thick. (Merial, by the way, is the Merck/Sanofi-Aventis joint venture in animal health.) Dogs can be poisoned There are vets who operate on fish There’s an animal called a sugar glider? Some cats are compulsive. Rats aren’t just for subways anymore.

Giuliani wants Clinton to apologize to Petraeus

clipped from http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/printedition/2007/09/14/giuliani0914.html In metro Atlanta for a pair of private fund-raisers, presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Thursday sought to please the Georgia GOP base by bashing Democrat Hillary Clinton for her "disbelief" of Gen. David Petraeus —- and demanding she apologize. But the former New York mayor also might have bewildered some Republicans when he categorized illegal immigration as something other than a crime. "The law books say that crossing the border without permission is a misdemeanor. Other than that, it's not a crime," Giuliani said. "That's a question of law, not political rhetoric or political spinning or political positioning." The Republican candidate was responding to an article published in Thursday's editions of the Washington Times, in which he was quoted as saying illegal immigration shouldn't be classified as a crime "because the government wouldn't be able to prosecute it. "We couldn't prosecute 12 million people," he said in the article.