Word: cupped
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...Hare asks Henry. Hare then steps back until he's standing between a pair of inverted plastic cups on the floor. He quickly puts the hand holding the biscuit under one cup, then the other, and holds up both empty hands. Hare could run a very profitable shell game. No one in the room--neither dog nor human--can tell which cup hides the biscuit. (See a video on how dogs think like...
Henry could find the biscuit by sniffing the cups or knocking them over. But Hare does not plan to let him have it so easy. Instead, he simply points at the cup on the right. Henry looks at Hare's hand and follows the pointed finger. Kivell then releases the leash, and Henry walks over to the cup that Hare is pointing to. Hare lifts it to reveal the biscuit reward. (See TIME's photo-essay "Puppies Behind Bars...
Sure, the NCAA College Cup (the annual post-season college tournament) is routinely dominated by teams from the Big East...
Without starting an ice cream war, Flyby would like to offer this: We'll miss sharing a cup of "Happy Couple" ice cream in Herrell's wonderfully sketchy vault, or finding that you happened to walk in when your favorite combination of peanut butter, chocolate and caramel was being offered on the menu...
...know what we're talking about, go get a cup before Herrell's closes--perhaps as soon as November. Farewell, we will miss you old friend...