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...help keep them from fulfilling that stereotype. Dubin, a p.r. executive and Little League coach, pairs three rookies with three dads willing to hand over their babies for training purposes. Support the head, the instruction begins. Act naturally because babies can smell fear. Roll them over and rub their backs if they start to cry. "You'll probably hold the baby differently from your wife. That's O. K.," Dubin says. "But this will be the beginning of, 'Why are you doing it that way?'" he warns. "Tell your wife, 'We're going to do things differently, and you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Daddy Boot Camp | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...McCain's second objective is to rub some of the shiny gloss off Obama and encourage voters to see the presumptive Democratic nominee for what, Republicans say, his record shows he is - a conventional liberal proposing conventionally liberal solutions to the nation's problems. "The wrong change looks not to the future but to the past for solutions that have failed before and will surely fail us again," McCain said Tuesday. "I have a few years on my opponent, so I am surprised that a young man has bought in to so many failed ideas. Like others before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain Sells His Kind of Change | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...upgraded my avatar to much cuter dimensions. This time I found myself conversing with people instead of logging off. I was more outgoing. Next, I'm considering giving my avatar a cottage by the sea and a job doing charitable work. Maybe some of the positive vibes will rub off into my real life. I'll let you know how it works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Second Life Affects Real Life | 5/12/2008 | See Source »

...that Morris?s manner of relating this story is very often quite inappropriate to its substance. It is a sordid and appalling tale and what it demands is almost an anti-style - rough, crude, grim, technically poor imagery unrelieved by sleek, slick fancy work. If you are going to rub our noses in this ugliness, you must not let up until, perhaps, we have learned our lesson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Standard Operating Procedure: Too Much Style? | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

...were dark with sweat, and The Stable Boy, now shirtless, was pouring cool water from a bucket all down the curve of the beast’s spine. Frederick gave himself completely to the scene before him. He wondered what The Stable Boy would say if Frederick offered to rub him down...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Stable Boy | 4/20/2008 | See Source »

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