Word: cockerel
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...France's two publicly quoted poultry producers, is attaching photos of caged hens to its products as a marketing device. So far, though, sales are hardly flying in response. COQ A DOODLE DON'T Stewards at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium will be keeping an eye out for cockerel smugglers when the French rugby squad plays Wales on March 18. For decades, French fans have released a cockerel - the French national emblem - during the game. But last week, an official declared: "Any smuggled bird is a risk." ZOO STORIES Lacking any international standards, European zoos are devising their own strategies...
...publisher, of course, is Harvard University Press, and they have outdone themselves in binding and printing Rudenstine’s volume, combining a tasteful cover image of Memorial Hall with a thick, sweet-smelling paper and a special font (“Golden Cockerel,” for the curious) that offers, according to a note at the end of the volume, a “face of notable heft, with a dense color on the page and sharp serifs reminiscent of the carver’s chisel.” The intended effect, obviously, is one of words hewn...