Word: ostrichism
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...decent bottle of Bordeaux. Think healthy meat, if you must, and it's a small portion of free-range chicken breast...Whatever your criterion, there's always something outgunning pork for the top spot: aristocratic meat (venison, swan), cruel meat (dog, suckling anything), underrated (rabbit), overrated (veal), fashionable (ostrich), unfashionable (horse...
Klein's article demonstrates what is wrong in America. To vote for a fantasy is ostrich politics; in other words, to ignore reality like massive national debt, the Iraq debacle, global warming and the fact that as a nation you are neither invincible nor infallible. Rather vote for a person who is willing to deal with reality and treat all nations and ideologies as equals, and in so doing live up to your constitution and the great American Dream. Eric Nobbs, GEORGE, SOUTH AFRICA...
...Eating contests weren't limited to hot dogs, however. New York Yankees outfielder Ping Bodie competed in a 1919 pasta-eating contest against an ostrich in Jacksonville, Florida. (Again, according to legend, the ostrich passed out after its 11th bowl and Bodie won by default.) In 1958, a pair of American and Soviet weightlifters fought their own version of the Cold War by eating eight lobsters and six squab in front of 250 onlookers at a New York restaurant. They didn't even touch the dozen lamb chops and 10 steaks waiting for them, and ultimately declared themselves failures...
...study in the current issue of Science magazine showed that the king of dinosaurs is related to some animals that might not usually be considered ferocious—like the chicken and the ostrich...
...pieced all the sequences back together and realized that these sequences were looking more like chicken and ostrich,” Asara said, adding that it’s not clear whether T. Rex was more closely related to the chicken or the ostrich...