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Kites hovering ahead of us indicated a ger. The tradition is to shout "Hold the dog!" on approaching to warn the occupants to restrain their snarling mastiff. Let the horsemen deal with formal greetings. They'll produce a snuff bottle from the upper folds of their gowns, which double as carryalls, and hand it over for a snort while exchanging a long handshake. Bring appetite enough for thick, yak-milk yogurt, cheese and marmot meat hot from a dung-fired stove. Try fermented cow's or mare's milk. After a bowl or two, you'll be ready to invade...
...animals are a mix of English mastiff and Canary Island cattle dog, which as a purebred was considered so dangerous that Spain outlawed the Canario in the 1930s, nearly causing its extinction. Were the two dogs trained to kill? And if so, did the couple know what they were capable of? Noel and Knoller denied any culpability in an unusual, 18-page letter faxed to local district attorney Terence Hallinan. In it Noel described Bane--whose name literally means "death"--as "a really gentle animal" and Hera as "a neighborhood favorite." He claimed that Knoller tried to hold the dogs...
When I got my svelte, 4-lb. IBM Thinkpad last year, it made my old Mac PowerBook look obese. At 7 lbs., the Mac was a laptop in the same way that a bull mastiff is a lapdog. You need a pretty big lap. But my ThinkPad was so small and powerful, I figured I'd take it everywhere. On the train, Mr. Productivity would write his columns, answer his e-mail and even "test" a game...
Scott Turner (Tom Hanks) is a tidy bundle of compulsions, the kind of man who gets off on an improved filing system and looks forward to flossing his teeth. Hooch (a mastiff named Beasley) is a messy bundle of sinew and instinct, the kind of dog who lives to wreck your living room and looks forward to sinking his teeth into the necks of people he doesn't like. Also, he drools...
Television has long been the tail that wags the Olympic mastiff. But the 1988 Summer Games may mark the first time it has wagged an entire national time system. Three years ago, while preparing to sell TV rights to the Games, South Korean Olympic officials realized that the rights would be worth more if the country's clocks were moved forward one hour -- thus enabling more daytime events to be seen in prime time in the U.S. Result: last year, for the first time since the 1960s, South Korea instituted daylight saving time...