Word: crows
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TRANSMISSION Birds are prime reservoirs of West Nile virus and prime targets of mosquitoes. When a mosquito bites an infected bird like a crow, the virus collects in the insect's saliva and can infect the next target it strikes. The disease may take 3 to 14 days to incubate...
...Botox is so wonderful for the forehead and the crow's-feet," says D. Kimberly Butterwick, a dermatologic surgeon in La Jolla, Calif., "that it has fueled the desire for fillers in the lower face." And although dosing up on wrinkle fillers may seem the height of self-indulgence in a time of war, unemployment and cutbacks in medical insurance, there has been a 33% increase in their use in the U.S. this year as compared with 2001, shortly before Botox was approved for cosmetic use by the Food and Drug Administration...
...only dresses in drag when he goes to Rocky Horror, which he has been doing since he attended his first show in 1994, at age 18. At that point, he came dressed in a trench coat as “The Crow,” a comic book superhero. A few months later, he decided to make his drag debut...
...unidentified Arizona GED hopefuls had the brightest idea. For preparation, they stole a filing cabinet containing three versions of the test. Dartboard assumes the scheme involved much planning to move the test-stuffed filing cabinet while avoiding suspicious passers-by. The scheme probably also involved many hand-trucks, crow-bars and sledge-hammers, among other heavy tools, to remove, secure and transport said failing cabinet...
...lieu of crow-bars and sledge-hammers, Dartboard suggests the thieves utilize another means to achieve passing test scores. Reading something would be a good first step. They could even use the stolen tests as practice material...