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Animal Research Grants a Waste of Taxpayer Money

Critter News

Each year, millions of cats, dogs, non-human primates and other animals suffer and die in research laboratories. World Week for Animals in Laboratories (April 17-24) exposes their plight and the broken federal research funding system that perpetuates outdated animal experiments at the expense of modern and more humane technologies.

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Edgar Allan Poe's “The Raven”

10,000 Birds

Beyond being an amazing poem, however, “The Raven&# has the additional attraction of being the subject of an essay by the poet himself that explains the process he used to write it. One doesn’t have to wonder what Poe was thinking as he wrote “The Raven&# because he tells you in “ The Philosophy of Composition.&#

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