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...Trojan Dog," selling all kinds of online goods and services to you once you'd become sentimentally attached to the blasted thing. This was based on conversations with Takeshi Yazawa, Sony's Vice President of Entertainment Robots, and an AIBO guru. Yazawa talked in very vague terms about his pup's long term future as an entertainment and information platform; you might take him in the car with you and ask for directions, he said, or have him take pictures of the family with the nose camera and send them to Grandma wirelessly over the Internet...
...than most mountaineers, who tend toward lanky, long muscles. But he possesses an abundance of the one indispensable characteristic of a great mountaineer: mental toughness, the ability to withstand tremendous amounts of cold, discomfort, physical pain, boredom, bad food, insomnia and tedious conversation when you're snowed into a pup tent for a week on a 3-ft.-wide ice shelf at 20,000 ft. (That happened to Erik on Alaska's Denali.) On Everest, toughness is perhaps the most important trait a climber can have. "Erik is mentally one of the strongest guys you will ever meet," says fellow...
...than most mountaineers, who tend toward lanky, long muscles. But he possesses an abundance of the one indispensable characteristic of a great mountaineer: mental toughness, the ability to withstand tremendous amounts of cold, discomfort, physical pain, boredom, bad food, insomnia and tedious conversation when you're snowed into a pup tent for a week on a 3-ft.-wide ice shelf at 20,000 ft. (That happened to Erik on Alaska's Denali.) On Everest, toughness is perhaps the most important trait a climber can have. "Erik is mentally one of the strongest guys you will ever meet," says fellow...
...ability to deliver so much price data to buyers has made insurance a more perfect market, and the impact on premiums has been enormous. Online insurance sites accounted for as much as half the decline in term-life prices from 1995 to 1997, when the Web was but a pup, according to a study by economists Jeffrey Brown of Harvard and Austan Goolsbee of the University of Chicago...
...regular adult, a "pale adult" and a slightly different form of the bird seen in eastern Canada. Another drawing portrays a group of robins in typical feeding postures on the ground. Beneath the artwork, Sibley presents a detailed description of robins' vocal behavior ("Call varies from a low, mellow pup or a sharp, clucking, often doubled piik to a sharper, rapid, urgent series kli quiquiquiqui koo..."). All this for what is probably the most easily recognized bird in North America...