Word: bongos
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Jazz, an endangered African wildcat, last week became the first mammal to be born from a frozen embryo implanted in a house cat. But she's not the first rare animal to use a common species' womb. A bongo antelope was born to an eland in 1984 at the Cincinnati Zoo, and two Holsteins, one in Cincinnati and one at the Bronx Zoo, have given birth to gaur, a rare species of wild cattle...
...Beat is perhaps the most rock-oriented form of dance music and thus has had the biggest crossover success. It borrows the percussion style of breakbeat (common samples include the drums in James Brown's "Funky Drummer" and those in Incredible Bongo Band's "Apache"), and throws in the squelch of the Roland 303 synthesiser, rock guitars, and whatever else fits. Fatboy Slim's You've Come a Long Way, Baby or the Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole are both fairly well-known albums, but try the import-only Fatboy Slim mix album On the Floor at the Boutique...
Then there was Omar Bongo, another former client, who has been the President of the oil-rich West African nation of Gabon since 1967. When Citi belatedly got around to working up his customer profile, officials were at a loss to explain the origin of more than $100 million held in Bongo's accounts. Then a helpful Bongo subordinate told the bank that the President regularly receives 8.5% of the country's budget as an allowance. Bank officials accepted this explanation, although no such provision existed in Gabon's budget...
...most curiously enduring of public marriages. Stern regularly used Alison as on-air fodder, moaning about their sex life--she'd been known to call up and rebut him--and once hurtfully joked about Alison's miscarriage. Yet through all the stripper interviews and hearty rounds of Butt Bongo, the professional lech vowed he was faithful to his wife, portrayed in his autobiography and 1997 movie Private Parts as a dedicated partner who gave as good as she got. The Sterns offered little detail about the "amicable" split. For America's top exhibitionist, it seems, some parts remain private...
...resisting all the negative reinforcement I could dish out. In fact, the habit was awesome to behold. Nat would arrive home from school and be drawn, as if by some tractor beam, straight to the den. When his friends were present, there was a nearly indecipherable babble: "Hit Bongo Bongo with the ice arrows." "Switch to the Biggoron sword." "Use the Lens of Truth...