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Ever wish that your dog or cat could do a little bit more for you than sleep, eat and lick itself? Well, some animals can. Lately, a few--tame and wild--have made news by giving back and changing lives. Take a peep at these philanthropets, which have proved to be truly man's best friends...
...tired-looking trailers parked alongside grain silos and stock pens, four white-coated scientists are investigating crimes with the tools of 21st century forensics. They're testing hairs found on a blanket wrapped around a victim of rape and murder, trying to match them to a suspect's dog. They're analyzing the DNA of two Pekingese killed during a robbery to determine if a suspect was at the scene of the crime. They're looking for a match between stray hairs left at a murder scene and DNA taken from the suspect...
...only slight resemblance to the flashy labs you see on TV crime shows, but the division's record of success reads like a Hollywood script. In its first year of operation, the lab helped prosecutors win a tricky sexual-assault conviction in Iowa in which the key clue was dog urine (the victim was unable to identify the suspect, but her dog had relieved itself on his truck during the assault). "Once we had the DNA to connect him to the crime scene, he pled guilty," says acting lab director Beth Wictum...
Olmert's elegant and noiseless assumption of power last week was a singularly un-Israeli sort of act: a dog that didn't bark in a prohibitively raucous canine nation. His public gestures were tasteful. He refused to sit in Sharon's seat at the first Cabinet meeting or use Sharon's office. He gave no interviews, a real departure for a politician who had served as the Prime Minister's talk-radio pit bull. He traded his famously dreadful orange ties for blue and black stripes. He was not seen smoking one of his beloved cigars. He looked very...
...when he opened the meeting, simultaneously wishing his colleagues a happy Chinese New Year—2006 is the Year of the Dog—and foreshadowing the discussion to come.“It seems that Harvard was conceived, if not quite born, in the Year of the Dog,” Kirby quipped, before launching a comprehensive description of those born in that year. “It’s said they care little for wealth, but somehow they have a lot of money—we’ll find...