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...raise money for charity while deflecting unwanted cameras. Britney Spears and Kevin Federline cuddled up to newborn Sean Preston on the cover of People last fall. Within months photographers so harassed Spears that she was caught on film driving her SUV away from them with babe dangerously held on lap. Despite the fact that Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin staged a perfectly lovely canoodling shot outside her obstetrician's office in 2003, flashbulbs continue to click every time the couple leave their London home with tots Apple and Moses in tow. And for years the British Royal Family has meted...
...western Kenya, it was as a 26-year-old backpacker exploring his family roots. In 1987, he and half-sister Auma rode a dilapidated old bus from Kisumu, the provincial capital, 60 miles away. As they lurched along dirt roads, a couple of chickens nestled in Obama's lap and mothers passed wet babies back and forth to the two young visitors. Obama spent his time in Kogelo, a small rural village where people grow maize and raise cows, getting to know his grandmother Sarah Hussein Obama and wandering the fields and dirt lanes his late father had walked...
...Suga Mama ("I'ma be like your Jolly Rancher, that you get from the corner store/ Or I'ma be like a waffle cone that's drippin' down to the floor") is another song so exuberant in its desire to entertain that it literally invites you onto its lap...
...showed images of exploding laptops, but the message from Dell was more subdued: "Under rare conditions, it is possible for these batteries to overheat, which could cause a risk of fire." At that moment, McArdle's Dell laptop, which he bought last year, was resting on his lap. Nervously removing it, he popped out the battery to check if it was part of the recall...
...partly being available to accidents that fall into your lap. The ideal way to work on a project is to ask a question you don't know the answer...