Word: fowls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...International fowl diplomacy aside, scientists continue to debate whether to have the astronauts re-release the orbital satellite they rescued in Monday's spacewalk. While the shuttle may have more than enough turkey, it may be short on fuel to support...
Pratt's confidence in "The Hut on Fowl's Legs" was beyond belief. It sounded as if he had been playing this piece for twice his age. But what made the entire performance of "Pictures" truly great, as good as the golden Benno Moiseiwitsch recording, was his huge sound at "The Great Gate of Kiev." The audience was completely under his spell. And his choice of encore, the Schumann-Liszt "Widmung," sent everyone home smiling...
ATTACK OF THE KILLER CHICKEN! Thorough cooking can save us from bacteria-ridden fowl. Arnold will play Colonel Sanders in the flick...
...coup, demonstrating convincingly how instinctive ("hardwired") behavior can be shuttled from one species to another. The feat, moreover, was accomplished not by crossbreeding or genetic engineering but through the artful replacement of selected brain cells in a chicken embryo with those from the embryo of a Japanese quail, a fowl of a completely different sort...
...Balaban's experiments published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences created yet more public concern about biological tinkering, not to mention a fresh wave of stale chicken jokes. (Why did the mad scientist kick the chickens out of his lab? Because they were using fowl language.) Raising the specter of brain transplants in humans, radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh blustered, "This is more dangerous than cloning...