The Two Rivers veteran was followed 29 minutes later by 2004 winner Mitch Seavey of Seward and his 12-dog team.

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"You could conceivably mush a dog team 150 miles to the Pacific Ocean from our front yard and not see another soul on the entire trip!"

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"My dog team is my heart, " she said.

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If you're comfortable, you can drive your own dog sled team.

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More than 10% of the dogs purchased by the military fail to meet the program's physical or behavioral standards, usually because of problems (like fear of gunfire) that weren't evident during the lengthy testing by the dog-buying team.

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His team cloned the first dog, considered very difficult to do because of the reproductive cycles.

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While participants viewed a variety of images including human faces, doll faces, dog faces, toy dog faces, and clocks, the research team recorded the activity of their brains.

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The biggest question looming over the team right now is how he and Lin will coexist when the team's biggest gunner and resident alpha dog returns.

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Tom Daschle, a former Senate majority leader, could help Mr Obama's team put pressure on Congress without alienating its members, a problem that can dog first-term presidents.

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Race officials personally introduce each team as they depart "the chute, " announcers struggling to be heard over a cacophony of howling dog teams.

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