Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lines through which he hopes to minister to American Dreams. His own dream is of becoming "a major player in the turtle trade." Not far away, as Mike Bryan tells us in Uneasy Rider: The Interstate Way of Knowledge (Knopf; 349 pages; $25), is Phil ("Shorty") Kendrick, a former egg deliverer who, having seen Jesus, is planning a 450-ft. model of Noah's ark. So far his kingdom extends mostly to a 14-year-old camel he drags around for cameos in Easter pageants...
Since 1968, Gerald Kooyman of the University of California at San Diego has studied emperor penguins, beguiling flightless birds that are dependent on Antarctic sea ice. The penguins need 255 days of sea ice in order to complete the cycle from egg laying to the stage when fledglings are hardy enough to begin their wanderings through the southern ocean. Typically, the young birds jump into the water only two weeks or so before the ice breaks up. This year, says Kooyman, the ice near Franklin Island broke up in mid-December, two weeks before the fledglings were ready to embark...
WHITE HOUSE EASTER-EGG ROLL Phew! Some broken eggs but no jokes about Chinese egg rolls and unsavory Asian connections...
Sedaris is an odd egg. He wrote all of Naked last year, mostly at night, hunting-and-pecking on a typewriter, which is the main reason he "can't stand the painful shit, like editing." Though smiling wide when amusing someone, Sedaris claims he only laughs at his material "one time, and that's when I'm writing...
...Women who have had TUBAL STERILIZATION, now hear this. If you wind up conceiving (which is rare), you face a 30% risk of an ectopic pregnancy--in which the egg implants outside the womb. One-sided pelvic pain and unusual vaginal bleeding are symptoms. Don't ignore them...