Word: iguana
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...than a mile away, more than 200 Haitian children lounge listlessly under drab green tents, seeking refuge from the harsh midday sun. Camp Nine, their home since last June, is a desolate patch of cactus-filled desert where the only sign of life is an occasional banana rat or iguana. A fence encircles the camp, which is guarded by American soldiers. The children, many of them orphans, have languished in this dusty purgatory for nearly a year. Despite the efforts of immigrants' rights groups, only a few of the Haitian minors -- who range in age from infants to teenagers, including...
...visual-effects supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic. "But computer-generated creatures can run, hop, do anything." To bone up on dinosaurs, Dippe and his colleagues studied the movements of live elephants, rhinos and giraffes and watched footage of alligators tearing meat apart. Ace animator Steve Williams even kept an iguana in his office -- for research, not company...
...toys help us avoid loneliness. A double can be pretty depressing if one roommate is away and the Lego phone isn't ringing. But we're never deserted by our three plastic frogs (Isaiah, Ezekiel and Bob) and our orange iguana, John Black...
Scenario Two: Examining the belly of John Black the Iguana, our male friend finds a surprise. "Hey! A suction cup!" he yells. Then he clumsily sticks our iguana on the TV set or computer screen. Thirty seconds later, the plastic reptile falls to the floor. Poor John...
...going to talk to people on an iguana farm, talking to them about iguanas as an alternative form of meat," Wiest said...