Word: ducked
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...cartoons, starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and a dozen other barnyard thespians, were the star attractions of countless children's Saturday afternoons--and internal lives. But Chuck Jones' Warner Bros. cartoons were more than kid stuff, as we realized long before their creator's death last week, at 89, of congestive heart failure. "We weren't making them for kids or for adults," he often said. "We were making them for ourselves." And, a grateful viewer has to say, for the best part of ourselves...
Favorite vacation spot: Disney World! I’m never too old to appreciate the idealism and I love Donald Duck...
...well know that chicken flu is bad for business. After each H5N1 outbreak, Hong Kong has banned poultry imports from China, if only temporarily. When Macau detected H5N1 in Chinese geese last May, Chinese waterfowl imports were banned for three months. And after avian flu was detected in Chinese duck meat by Seoul authorities in mid-2001, Japan and South Korea imposed a two-month ban. Within days of Hong Kong's latest outbreak, sales of chicken plunged 80%?an estimated loss to retailers of $13 million. "This is supposed to be our peak season," says Wong Wai-Chuen, chairman...
...shuttered shophouses. Cultures collide at every intersection. A walk down Lebuh Chulia, a major thoroughfare, will have your mouth watering at the spicy aromas from Chinese hawker stands and your hips swaying to the rhythms of the latest Bollywood hits as you pass Little India. For a brief respite, duck into the scented world of Sheik Abdul Hamid Bin Hassan Badjenid's perfume shop?run by three generations of Yemenite traders?where you can buy tiny bottles of pure frankincense oil for $160 apiece...
...When he was dropped off at the airport, he disappeared inside and called a friend to pick him up. For the second flight east, Yuki strapped him to the seat. Ohno quickly became the uncut jewel of the U.S. program, but his lack of dedication was profound. He would duck into a Pizza Hut in the middle of training runs. "I just messed around during training, not focusing," he says now. "I didn't even know how to focus. I'd just...