Word: dog
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...explains why Chelsea appeared to be the Garbo of presidential children; after some snide remarks in the press about her awkward adolescence, Chelsea was shielded in the élite Quaker fortress of Sidwell Friends School and fiercely protected by her parents. When Rush Limbaugh called her "the White House dog," T-shirts appeared saying LEAVE CHELSEA ALONE. Which, remarkably, most people...
...enjoyed your article "The Secrets Inside Your Dog's Mind" [Sept. 21]. I have nothing against your accolades for canines. But in their ability to follow a pointed finger's intent, dogs are not so unusual among animals, as your piece asserts. Did you know that ravens and other birds have shown the ability to follow a human's gaze...
...thickly furred dog, panting in the tropical heat of Indonesia's Sumatra island, was confused. The retriever had picked up the scent of a human in the wreckage of a local college in the city of Padang, which was struck by an earthquake two days before, killing at least 515 people, according to local disaster management officials, with some 4000 more believed to still be buried. But the canine, which had arrived by chartered jet from Switzerland just hours before, hesitated. She licked the air and waved her muzzle back and forth. Something about the smell wasn't right...
...Other canine units are also on the scene. On Saturday, at the Ambacang Hotel, where dozens are believed to still be trapped in the massive wreckage, a pair of Japanese dogs - Eros, a German shepherd, and Akane, a Golden retriever - begin sniffing through the mountains of rubble from the once-graceful colonial-style historic building. The dogs were each trained for five years for such missions, but this is their first time in the field overseas. "Sometimes when you are doing the training, you forget that it's for something real, says Hidehiro Murase, the president of the Rescue Dog...
...House, where many conservative Blue Dog Democrats have said they will not vote for a bill that contains a public option, wrangling over the proposal is not quite so public. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is in the process of merging bills from the three committees there with jurisdiction over health care, and the design of the public plan is one of the sticking points. The original version of the House bill contained a public option that would have set its reimbursement rates above, but still tied to, Medicare rates. But an amendment that passed in the House Energy Committee would...