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...obvious that Clinton can't wait. Last week Clinton read a New York Times piece detailing George Bush's foray into New Hampshire, replete with examples of the President's tortured rhetoric. After seeing Bush's answer to a question about extending unemployment benefits ("If a frog had wings, he wouldn't hit his tail on the ground -- too hypothetical"), Clinton said, "Oh it'll be fun. Sometimes I have to remember I've got to beat the other guys first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: The Self-Making of a Front Runner | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

Computer-assisted searches comparing the receptor's amino acid sequence to other known proteins found that they were slightly similar to two amino acid importing proteins of yeast. Experiments with frog eggs proved that the protein did in fact play a role similar to that of these previously discovered proteins...

Author: By Compiled BY Ivan oransky, | Title: Study Offers Insight Into Viral Receptors | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

Jean Richard, 79, a retired watchmaker from nearby Rayne ("Frog Capital of the World"), recalls an earlier time, when almost everybody in southwest Louisiana played an instrument. "My daddy could play harmonica, crow like a rooster and bark like a dog all at the same time." He shakes his head sadly. "That trait is gone today -- nobody practices that anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why The Good Times Still Roll | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

SING A TO Z (A&M) The toe-tapping, finger-snapping alphabet soup on this album, served up by the Canadian children's trio Sharon, Lois & Bram, gets the two-year-olds and thirty-somethings in the house wriggling. When did frog sounds, xylophones, yodeling and zithers ever sound this good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Apr. 29, 1991 | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

...after the top job himself -- constitutionally. In a move that surprised many of the other 10 contenders, Ramos announced his candidacy for the 1992 presidential election at a rally of his newly organized United People Power Movement. He followed up his speech with a replay of the exuberant frog jumps with which he had greeted first reports of Marcos' flight from the Philippines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Ramos Jumps Into the Race | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

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