Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love with a stranger and finds herself in an unnamed American city. Her journey comprises stories of rape and incest, murder and solicitation, placed in a mythical context of forests and magic. A "man in the forest laughing with little pointed teeth" violates her, yet gives her a Faberge egg. This egg becomes the metaphor for Ilana's life and spirituality, though the connection remains weak due to Budnitz's style problems. She writes, "I did not tell her about the egg. I should have flung it away when I ran, but I had been too frightened to think...
...SAMPLE MENU] BREAKFAST Four scrambled egg whites with nonfat cheese, grapes, rye toast with peanut butter...
LUNCH Cobb salad with chicken, nitrate-free bacon, hard-boiled egg, salad greens, tomatoes, blue cheese...
...they have egg in them?" she asks...
...clone it. Bernard Buigues, the man who led the project to carve out a 23-ton ice block around the animal and helicopter it 150 miles to an ice cave laboratory, told reporters Wednesday that he hopes to either clone the animal or use its sperm to fertilize the egg of an Asian elephant. No action will be taken until April, Buigues said, at which point a team of scientists will begin to thaw the beast using, um, hair dryers...