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Saturday, November 10, 2007

Our daughter Jessica sent me word of an article on CCN.com a few days ago that she thought I'd enjoy. She was correct: "Ten dogs that changed the world," which at first glance I mistook for the title of John Reed's famous 1920's reporting classic, "Ten Days that Shook the World," and thus interesting to me, turned out to be, instead, a listing of famous dogs in world history, by Canadian professor of Psychology Dr. Stanley Coren, in his book "The Pawprints of History: Dogs and the Course of Human Events,." you know, the kind of filler that newspersons have to use on days when neither Paris Hilton, Linsay Lohan, nor Britney Spears has drunkenly driven her Mercedes into a group of hapless pedestrians, to make newsworthy stories for the press.

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