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...iPhone for work now, instead of my BlackBerry," I said. Grudgingly (the latest iPhone costs $199 or $299, plus I'd have to pay Verizon a $120 early-termination fee), she gave me the green light. Then tragedy struck: my 10-year-old morbidly obese Labrador retriever Otto tore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Working on the iPhone | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

John McCain has 22 pets, including a ferret, two turtles, and three parakeets. Mike Huckabee has just two: a black Labrador named Jet and a Shih Tzu with the oddly non-conformist name of Sonic. As First Lady, Hillary Clinton wrote a book titled, “Dear Socks, Dear Buddy” featuring letters that children had written to the First Pets, but now she just has Seamus the Labrador. Barack Obama has no pets, but true to the politics of hope, he has promised his two daughters he will get a dog when the election finishes...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Compassionate Campaigners | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...frequent bike rides around the rest of Shanghai - trips about which his mother later claimed to know nothing. Arm's-length parenting was common in this social set, writes Ballard, with children often treated as "an appendage to their parents, somewhere between the servants and an obedient Labrador." He claims these were happy days, yet time and again he mourns, without rancor, the lack of parental warmth, which he blames on the stiff formalities of the British middle classes of the time. "The vistas of polished furniture," he writes, "turned a family home into a deserted museum, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J.G. Ballard: The Emperor of Shepperton | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

...yellow Labrador Retriever leads Sally J. Kiebdaj ’09 around the Adams House dining hall. The dog sits silently below the table as Kiebdaj eats lunch...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Blind Students Navigate Harvard Bureaucracy | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...Lucky and Flo, two black Labrador retrievers, hold the distinction of being the world's first dogs trained to detect pirated DVDs. This week in a demonstration at MPAA headquarters in Washington, D.C, the two-year-old Labs proved their olfactory talents to a roomful of customs officials, FBI agents, reporters and U.S. Department of Commerce piracy czar Chris Israel by successfully sniffing out DVDs hidden in baggage and containers set up for a test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biting Back Against Pirated DVDs | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

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