Word: caning
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...Staff writer Vinita M. Alexander cane be reached at valexand@fas.harvard.edu...
...lived in Sylvia's neighborhood in the '40s. It's a long shot, but maybe one of them just bumped into her at a Florida condo. Whether you find your old chums or not, you might make some new ones--folks who also remember the Broadway trolley's cane seats and the pizza at the Monarch Grill. Who knows? Maybe someone will write to me with news--even Sylvia, wondering, "Sidney, all those years, where were you?" --By Francine Russo...
...sorry might earn them some goodwill." Perhaps, but elephants rarely apologize. - With reporting by Joe Kirwin Yo, Ho, Ho - and 35 bucks Are booze drinkers - already accustomed to upscale whiskey and "sipping tequila" - ready for pricey rum? France's Moët Hennessy thinks so: it's launching 10 Cane, a premium rum from Trinidad, in U.S. stores this spring. The price: $35 a bottle, about three times what you'd expect to pay for Bacardi. No word yet on whether 10 Cane will reach Europe, but rum is one of the world's best-selling spirits, with annual sales...
...With the chocolate dessert, Flat Top Johnny’s serves a pile of whipped cream with a maraschino cherry—and while too rich for one, it’s the perfect size for two. Meet white-haired Kenny at the bar, who stumbles in with his cane every night at 5 p.m. to nurse a beer—or nothing at all. Pool is half-price on Tuesdays, Ladies’ Night, and free on Wednesdays from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. The seven-minute walk from the T-stop can be deserted, so go by daylight...
...Frogs Make a Right? When Australians imported cane toads from Venezuela in 1935 to eat the beetles that were destroying sugar cane crops, they didn't count on the poisonous amphibians going after kookaburras, snakes and native cats instead. Now, after decades and millions of dollars spent trying to eradicate the man-made plague, a solution may be at hand: the DAHL'S AQUATIC FROG, native to Australia, can swallow infant and tadpole cane toads without any apparent ill effects?not bad, considering a grown cane toad can kill a dog in 15 minutes