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...Horton is a naturally generous soul; in an earlier Seuss story, Horton Hatches the Egg, he had stolidly perched on an irresponsible bird's egg, and stayed at the job for nearly a year, because he had promised he would. "I meant what I said and I said what I meant: An elephant's faithful one hundred percent." This time, his mission is even more perilous. He must fend off the agnostic scorn of prime jungle bureaucrat Jane Kangaroo and her simian minions the Wickersham brothers. Kangaroo charges a "black-bottomed eagle" to fly the speck to a remote spot...
...brick façade appeared 150 bulls and dragons, alternating in yellow and white, to honor Adad, the god of wind, and Marduk, Babylon's chief deity. Panels also depicted the mushhushshu, a dragon-like creature covered in scales - its front legs feline, its hind legs belonging to a bird of prey, its tail resembling a scorpion's stinger...
...they’d die for their pets. And while fewer than 13 million Americans now hunt, over 70 million observe, feed, or photograph wildlife on a regular basis. Of course, not all pet and wildlife lovers extend their concern with animals beyond their own Fido or favorite bird species, but many do, and they form a powerful new constituency against animal abuse...
...freshman seminar on the poet. Chaucer’s fourteenth century poem “Parliament of Fowls,” explains “For this was on seynt Volantynys day / Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese [choose] his make [mate].” The jump from bird breeding to human displays of affection for St. Valentine’s Day emerged sometime in the fifteenth century, according to Watson. During this time, people first began to address each other as “Valentine” and send each other little gifts as tokens of their affection...
...main reason wasn't drug-resistance; it was simply a saturated market. As countries meet their targets for an anti-flu-pandemic Tamiflu stockpile, global demand for the drug is tapering off. For now, at least, those national stockpiles still offer an advantage: To date, the H5N1 bird flu shows only limited resistance to the drug...