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Since she is in charge, we have a nine-pound chunk of buffalo hump, which Lewis and Clark considered the best part of the animal. This is because it's the fattiest part. Lewis and Clark loved the fat. "The general rule on the hunt was, the fattier the better. They were on the original Atkins diet," Leandra says. With that, she dips three fingers into a container of freshly rendered pig fat and licks them. There must be cultures where this is a mating ritual...
...split the nine-pound buffalo hump into two pieces and roast one in a Dutch oven set on the bottom of the fire and skewer the other on a metal pole laid over the fire. Both techniques produce a dry version of buffalo, which tastes a whole lot like beef, if a tiny bit tougher and leaner. It would be much better grilled, but it is still pretty good. It also might be better if Leandra hadn't insisted on putting a pile of dried buffalo dung into the fire right under...
...found the next best thing?a miniature hump-backed lump of igneous rock barely 800 m long and about 400 m wide just off Kalipur Beach, 20 km to the south of Diglipur. It had no name, but it did have a beach, a lagoon and even a patch of forest?we immediately dubbed it Turtle Island...
...underlying population standard deviation, which marks off important divisions of the Gaussian distribution. That distribution is better know as the bell shaped curve, and it has been used to rank you against your peers since you first learned to bubble in letters in fourth grade. Its single broad hump and leisurely asymptotic decline account for the gifted, the dull and the discontented masses in between...
...First we had to convince ourselves that we didn’t need to rely on [graduated senior] Dan Clemente’s presence. I think we’re over that hump. The next thing is convincing ourselves that we can still play good, quality basketball if Pat is indeed not having a good shooting night,” Sullivan said...