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...also unhappy about the impending arrival of the baby mammoth, but he copes with his insecurities by "adopting" three eggs he finds in an ice cave. They hatch and are revealed to each be a T. rex, whose mother soon finds and retrieves them in a neat mouthful, which includes Sid. The sloth's absence hardly seems like reason to take on the dinosaurs. Their possum friends sum it up nicely with this exchange: "I don't even like Sid." "Who does? He's an idiot." Nonetheless, they all go after...
...country by Pyongyang along with several other foreign correspondents, and even though we rode in a modern bus, the journey itself was like going back in time. From the capital, we drove down narrow country roads for nearly six hours, through small farming hamlets of white homes in neat rows. Men in army-green clothing worked the fields by hand; there were few tractors or animals in sight. Trucks with sacks of U.S. food aid passed...
...without any success, to limit a reporter to only a single question. He criticized McClatchy's Margaret Talev for prefacing a personal question about his smoking habit with a discussion of its policy implications. "I think it's fair, Margaret, to just say that you just think it's neat to ask me about my smoking as opposed to it being relevant to my new law," Obama chided. The President accused Tapper of playing "ombudsman" for pointing out that the President had declined to answer the third question of another reporter, USA Today's David Jackson, about health care. (Read...
...course, you can be heard playing solo in Woody Allen's Manhattan, at the opening of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. I was very proud of playing that. It's kind of a neat solo to play...
Veta la Palama is different. In 1982, the family that owns the Spanish food conglomerate Hisaparroz bought wetlands that had been drained for cattle-farming and reflooded them. "They used the same channels built originally to empty water into the Atlantic," explains Medialdea. "Just reversed the flow." Today, that neat little feat of engineering allows the tides to sweep in estuary water, which a pumping station distributes throughout the farm's 45 ponds. Because it comes directly from the ocean, that water teems with microalgae and tiny translucent shrimp, which provide natural food for the fish that Veta la Palma...