Word: keens
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...befall England. Tough days, then, for Baldrick, Branwen, Gwyllum, Hugine, Munin and Thor - the sextet normally roaming in the fortress grounds, now placed in aviaries. Still, the birds - and the nation - are safe for now. DUC CHICKEN France is Europe's biggest poultry-producing country - and its consumers are keen on organic and free-range produce. Or they were, before fears of avian flu cast a shadow. Duc, one of France's two publicly quoted poultry producers, is attaching photos of caged hens to its products as a marketing device. So far, though, sales are hardly flying in response...
...publishing business also reaps rewards from the growing use of music in other media: advertising, films and TV soundtracks, electronic games and toys. EMI even has a contract with a pottery company that prints song lyrics onto coffee mugs. Nicoli is particularly keen on the future of wireless sales of digital music. Noting that MP3-player penetration is only around 15%, but "that nearly everyone has a mobile phone," he's excited by the prospect that half of all mobiles will be music-enabled within two years, and that the technology for wireless downloads of music is nearly at hand...
Professors, keen on retaining their increased access to the Corporation, have been guarded in discussing their conversations with its members. But in recent interviews, professors have pointed out a rising level of interest among some Corporation members in the crisis brewing on campus...
...rare objects such as a 5th century sandstone head of the Hindu god Shiva and a 13th century Buddhist plaque from Burma, above. Pilgrim mores often included leaving behind a symbol of a request-like eyes fashioned out of silver for better vision. And, like tourists, pilgrims have been keen to bring home souvenirs, such as a 19th century miniature ivory stupa (Buddhist shrine) or a 17th century collapsible model of Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre...
...Good Life (Knopf; 368 pages) a better book? McInerney's eye is indisputably keen--witness such period moments as the dinner where the party favors are prescriptions for the antianthrax drug Cipro. And the book isn't starved for R-rated action: the two couples respond to the crisis with vigorous spasms of partner swapping...