Word: chickening
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...Yaguardabo to see her in-laws, 10 minutes up the road. We get there, and she's out. Condela stays put and seems perturbed--the back seat is not so big--when we welcome a young couple, Alexander and Yaineris, who bustle in, exhaling with relief. They have a chicken with them. A live chicken. Condela laughs at our surprise. The chicken is small and in a plastic bag--its red, confused little head poking out. Alexander and Yaineris are married, and have been visiting her parents; they're headed back home to Trinidad. The ocean is a few hills...
They're gun-toting, chicken-slaughtering, beef-eating Harvard men. And they're Jewish...
...years ago, the group watched a rabbi kill a live chicken in his driveway, in part to familiarize themselves with Jewish slaughtering laws...
...about dread--over money (investments), mortality (insurance) and, here, going back to work on Monday morning. In the employment site's Super Bowl spot, straight-faced kids recited career "dreams" ("I want to be forced into early retirement") that spoofed not only the rat race but other ads' phony, chicken-soup-for-the-sell affirmations...
...reduce the risk of pneumonia 42% and diarrhea 25%. What does the news mean for U.S. kids? They don't always get the recommended daily amount of zinc (5 mg for infants, 10 mg for preschoolers). So don't neglect zinc-rich foods like breast milk for babies and chicken and meat for older kids...