Word: ducked
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...find Berlin's most unusual art exhibition, jump off the tram at Alexanderplatz in the center of Berlin and duck down a flight of broad concrete stairs into the Underground station. Take a quick right, stop at a yellow, graffiti-covered steel door. Knock. Nina and Torsten Römer, curators of Project Paradise, open the door and lead the way deeper into the earth along a narrow concrete passageway to a Nazi-era bunker. During World War II, Berlin's huddled masses sheltered here as Allied bombs flattened their city. Until Nov. 2, you're more likely to bump...
...Both the "Little Lit" and "Little Vampire" series make for smart introductions to reading comics. While "Little Lit" will appeal to early readers, the wit of "Little Vampire" will delight their slightly older siblings. Citing the Carl Bark's Donald Duck comics from the 1940s and 50s as "among the best stories for kids on paper," Spiegelman says Americans have lacked for comics you can re-read the way kids like to do. Hopefully these two series will provide the beginning a greater selection of kid's comics. "Kids, as we know, are ambi-tasterous," Spiegelman says. "They'll like...
...Moeliker of the Natuurmuseum Rotterdam in the Netherlands explained the origin of his experimentation with Mallard ducks, pulling out a duck corpse from a brown paper bag to illustrate his point...
...Outside the museum where I work, I saw a duck rape the corpse of another male duck. After an hour, I couldn’t take it anymore. I had to dissect it and figure out what was going on,” Moeliker explained...
Under cover of darkness, a band of environmental activists last week went straight for the gourmet table. They raided a foie gras farm near Stockton, Calif., and "rescued" four ducks whose livers were headed for posh restaurants. The operation was not a total success; one duck died during the raid. But the effort, the fourth attack against the foie gras business in California since July, represents the latest campaign by animal-rights activists. The expensive delicacy is produced in the U.S. only in California and in New York's Hudson Valley...