Word: cicada
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...custard tarts with diced sweet potato. While the city may be best known for its rice noodles, it also does a mean line in soup, with various hole-in-the-wall cafés serving little else but broth containing double-boiled chicken and deer antler, pigeon with cicada shells and ginseng, and the like. Typical of the breed is Anyway - a pun on ai ni wei, meaning "love your tummy." Guilin's residents, despite the relentless influx of tourists, seem to have no hesitation in doing just that, and loving life into the bargain...
...Timing and instinct are among the dominant traits. How else to explain the fact that both men chose precisely the same day - nearly the same hour - to field press questions for the first time about the collapsing financial sector and the government's proposed $700 billion bailout? Like the cicada crawling up from the earth precisely 17 years after its mom lays her eggs, or the monarch butterfly fluttering a thousand miles to a particular spot, they were driven by something wired, not taught. And even more uncanny: they chose almost exactly the same words...
...last! Someone else who understands and loves cicadas [AMERICAN SCENE, July 15]. Unfortunately, too many uneducated or misinformed people malign these incredible insects. They are magnificent. I am a longtime fan, and hearing my first cicada each year is a special, eagerly anticipated event. Jackie Geyer Pittsburgh...
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER Although the queen termite has a longer lifespan, the 17-year cicada lives longer underground--more than 95% of its life. By comparison...
...Cicada (Brood x) 17 years Queen honeybee 7 years Monarch butterfly 6 months...