Education: A Reader’s Best Friend

MSNBC - Dec. 11, 2006 issue - A month ago, 8-year-old Connor Schultz could read 45 words a minute. Today he’s up to 93. The reason? A 4-year-old longhaired dachshund named Ruby who, once a week, visits Connor’s school in Sche-nectady, N.Y., and sits with him
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LOCAL EVENTS
San Jose Mercury News - Dachshund Gatherings. 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 25. Foster City dog Park, 600 Foster City Blvd, San Mateo, (650) 340-7022, ext. 784. www.wagntrain.com . SANTA CRUZ/MONTEREY Waterfalls, Fountains, Landscaping, And Other Ways To Brighten Up Your Garden. 7 p.m
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Pawparazzi: Celeb life in a doggie bag
Newsday - Toby, a dachshund who’s an artist; Indy, an author who is still a work in progress; Daisy, a beagle who’s a tennis pro; and Roxy, a bichon frise who is the founder of a cosmetics company. But, for now, the superstars of the summer of 2006 still own
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S.Korea slaughters dogs and pigs
CNN - IKSAN, South Korea (AP) — Unaware of his fate, a two-year-old dachshund barked while chained to his dingy, wooden house, as South Korea slaughtered hundreds of dogs and pigs in efforts to stem the spread of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. The
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