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Fanatically health-conscious Americans long ago deserted red meat, but they may soon flock back, attracted by a new entry on the menu: ground ostrich. Last month the Cuyama Buckhorn restaurant, about 160 miles north of Los Angeles, started serving ostrich burgers. Owner Ed Barredo charges the same for ostrich as for beef hamburgers, $6.95, and says he is selling about 25 pounds of ostrich a week...
...meat is dark, tasty and similar to beef but has one-eighth the fat and 15% less cholesterol, with just as much protein. Ostrich meat is lower in calories than even chicken and turkey. America's 1,000 or so ostrich growers, who raise the birds for their hides and feathers, are thrilled by the potential of this new market. Says ostrich rancher Gary Teixeria, who had the burger brainstorm and passed it on to Barredo: "The public is just eating...
With his gray Resistol hat and black ostrich-skin boots, the folksy gubernatorial candidate working the food line in a Tyler cafeteria last week looked every bit the old-time Texas cowboy that he is. And the campaign pledges that he rattled off in a gravelly West Texas drawl were just what plenty of voters in the Lone Star State want to hear...
...Victorian costumes are even more wonderfully fanciful, with huge leg-o'-mutton sleeves and artificial wasp waists. Starr's character is initially decked out in a purple and hot-pink number with a flattering chignon wig and a huge hat complete with pink bird and huge ostrich feathers. Kaiser has feathers and flowers literally stemming from his hair, or possibly from his Eyrehead...
Imagine a monster with the teeth of a shark, the talons of an eagle, the neck of an antelope and the hindquarters of an ostrich. A mythological chimera? Not at all. "I stepped down into this gulch," recounts University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno, "took 25 steps and screamed." Directly ahead, atop a sandstone knoll, lay the full skeleton of a 2-meter-long (about 6 ft.) carnivore. It proved to be the most ancient dinosaur discovered to date...