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Wechsler also penned a best-selling autobiography based on his hitchhiking experiences during his college years and a children’s book about “a hippopotamus who landed...
Linguists have long been fascinated by a London extended family with a rare hereditary speech disorder. Half the 30 family members have a genetic mutation that makes clear speech impossible. Although normal in other respects, they can't pronounce complex words like hippopotamus and don't use connecting terms like or and if. Researchers isolated the responsible gene last year and dubbed it FOXP2. Now comes tantalizing evidence that FOXP2 may have played a role in the evolution of modern humans...
...hope springs eternal, so does Nash's verse on fresh turf, For it is all over the Internet, in blithe disregard of copyright law, for any kid today to surf. A generation of websters can splash In his odes to the hippopotamus and the socialite and good dogs and diaper rash. Today's 10-year-olds can discover for themselves my long-ago pash: To put aside the weeping and gnashing of teeth and instead luxuriate in the reaping and teething of Nash...
...charismatic actor with a voice of bronze, Terfel, 33, also has the popular touch without which no classical singer can become a full-fledged superstar; at his 1996 Carnegie Hall recital debut, he actually led the delighted audience in a sing-along version of Flanders and Swann's Hippopotamus Song...
...children who have no insurance--that are being sold as fiscally prudent. "The new spending programs are like baby hippopotami now," Gramm explains, relishing every syllable. "They're small and they're cute. But in five years each of those baby hippopotami will be a big, ol' ugly hippopotamus...