Word: frogging
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...Frog features an Orientalized Continental menu in a quiet, pastel postmodern setting. Lunch features a Japanese bento, a box with four compartments, containing a choice of such intriguing morsels as grilled shrimp, grilled duck breast, crunchy Japanese-style salads and rice. Among simpler dishes, the swordfish with lemon-thyme butter is flawless...
...insertion of foreign genes into plants, animals or microbes. Scientists have, for example, introduced rat-growth- hormone genes into the DNA of mice, resulting in larger mice, and firefly genes into tobacco plants, which then glow in the dark. Genetic engineering cannot, however, "cross" a cow with a frog to produce a new species. "The essence of a particular animal is something you don't change," explains Thomas Wagner, director of Ohio University's Edison Animal Biotechnology Center in Athens, Ohio. "A pig is a pig, and a cow is a cow. You merely enhance certain aspects...
...direction of the person who is the target of the spell. For help with childbirth, he drapes the skin of an eland on the woman -- the eland being much like the cow, which possesses magic powers. In order to bring rain, the laibon places a dead frog on the ground, belly up, with a charm upon it. Within 24 hours, before the frog decays, the rain will fall...
Larson lives and works in a spacious Tudor-style house in suburban Seattle. His artistic sensibility invades his home: a papier-mache python winds through the living room, and a bright green Paraguayan tree frog croaks in a terrarium. At Christmas a wreath festooned with a rubber chicken hangs on the front door. Larson, clad usually in T shirt, jeans and running shoes, carries sketchbooks wherever he goes, doodling and jotting down phrases. But the hard labor takes place at the drawing board overlooking Union Bay, where he sits and stares, and stares and sits, until the ideas flow...
...more slimy candidate jumps into the fray. In the race for county commissioner in Lawrence, Kans., Agnes T. Frog, a frog, won 27.4% of the votes in a valiant effort to unseat In- cumbent Nancy Hiebert. Agnes was a write-in candidate sponsored by opponents of a proposed highway that, they contend, would threaten the habitat of the northern crawfish frog. Despite the loss, Agnes' spokesman, John Simmons, a herpetologist (one who studies amphibians), was practically jumping up and down at her showing: "Agnes leapt into the contest with all four feet. The frognosis was good when we took...