The dog, she said, was showing signs of “fearful aggressive syndrome”, because a new baby was expected in the household.Calling herself a “telepathic communicator” as well as an “animal psychic”, Ms Seere says meditation is central to her work. Usually, an owner will send her a photo of the pet and consultations are done on the phone for $90 an hour. “Meditation is to help animals find themselves, to find balance and to find wholeness,” she said.No one should be surprised, Ms Seere says, that New York animals need a little more attention paid to their inner selves They too feel the pressures outside “It’s chaos on the streets,” she said. And nerve-shredded New Yorkers need to lean on their animals to preserve their own inner peace.”Here, like in other big cities, our animals become family members and they mean as much to most people as their partners and children.

So the same kind of attention is now being paid to the animals, because people are realising they are sentient beings with very deep emotional lives.”Determining the extent to which animals think and have emotions is an area of serious scientific endeavour. One of its foremost researchers is a British biochemist, Richard Sheldrake, the author of Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home. A co-researcher, Pam Smart, said: “Through the evidence he has gathered, it does strongly suggest some pets do have a telepathic connection with us.”Still, even Ms Seere admitted not everyone finds it easy to take her and other pet psychics altogether seriously “I am not surprised For a lot of people it’s a leap But to me it’s a leap of the heart.”. Katharine Graham was buried in Washington yesterday as she had lived, in the presence of the powerful, with the trappings of a state funeral, yet with the affection and intimacy due a local girl, one of the city’s own. No king or conquering hero could have wished a finer send-off than the former publisher of The Washington Post, which broke the Watergate revelations that eventually toppled President Richard Nixon.

Katharine Graham was buried in Washington yesterday as she had lived, in the presence of the powerful, with the trappings of a state funeral, yet with the affection and intimacy due a local girl, one of the city’s own. No king or conquering hero could have wished a finer send-off than the former publisher of The Washington Post, which broke the Watergate revelations that eventually toppled President Richard Nixon.
The ceremony was carried live on five TV channels. Police closed the route of the cortege between Washington’s cathedral and Mrs Graham’s handsome Georgetown home.Ben Bradlee, her most famous editor, paid an affectionate tribute to “the most powerful woman in the world”, speaking of “her love of news, her love for answers and her love of a piece of the action”. She was, said Mr Bradlee, “a spectacular dame, and I loved her very much”..

An explosion killed at least 38 coal miners in a Chinese mine that illegally reopened after being closed for safety reasons, state media and a local official said on Monday. An explosion killed at least 38 coal miners in a Chinese mine that illegally reopened after being closed for safety reasons, state media and a local official said Monday.
Thirteen miners were rescued after the explosion Sunday at the mine in Xuzhou, a city in the eastern province of Jiangsu. But another 55 miners were missing and rescuers were trying to dig them out, the official Xinhua News Agency said.The death toll continued to rise, and Xinhua said late Monday that 38 bodies had been found. Xinhua said it was unclear whether any of those still missing had survived.Premier Zhu Rongji ordered “an all–out effort” to save the trapped miners, and the government demanded the closure of unlicensed coal mines, saying they were as dangerous as “time bombs,” according to Xinhua.Production at more than 100 other small mines in Xuzhou was halted for safety reviews, Xinhua said.The mine that exploded was closed June 15 because it lacked “all necessary … safety facilities” but it resumed operation this month, said a local official who identified himself only by his surname, Jiang.Police have detained the mine owner, Jiang said by telephone. He wouldn’t give details about the owner or rescue efforts.The government sent its chief official for industrial safety, Zhang Baoming, to Xuzhou after the explosion.Last week, Zhang had called for urgent measures to improve safety after explosives stored illegally in a northern Chinese home blew up, killing at least 69 people.China’s coal mines are the world’s deadliest, suffering thousands of deaths a year. Already this month, 21 miners were reported killed when a mine flooded in the northeastern province of Jilin..