Word: piglet
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DIED. JOHN FIEDLER, 80, and PAUL WINCHELL, 82, voice-over specialists who delighted young fans of the animated Winnie the Pooh films as two of Pooh's best pals, the ever anxious Piglet (Fiedler) and the peripatetically perky Tigger (Winchell); in Englewood, N.J., and Moorpark, Calif., respectively. Fiedler, a veteran character actor, played Mr. Peterson, the browbeaten therapy patient on The Bob Newhart Show, and Winchell, a popular ventriloquist, coined Tigger's trademark sign...
...manages to be both a journalist and a Conservative Member of Parliament - who best captured the disbelief of the Tory party last week. "It is just flipping unbelievable," Johnson wrote in the Daily Telegraph. His party's nemesis, he added, "is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness." The escape artist, of course, was Prime Minister Tony Blair, who had managed to slip out of a political bind - make that two of them - that could have forced him from office. On Tuesday, Blair squeezed a scant five-vote victory - despite Labour...
...sturdy, all faded wood except for the stone porch. She still grows pineapples and cassavas out back; she may be old but she has to work or she feels weak. Her husband, Ji Chiu, was first generation. He came to work the tin mines, a "sold piglet," as they were called, since they were sold by their parents with no real promise of return. She met him when she sold coconut cookies to the tin miners. They had five children, but twins died at birth...
XENA No, not the Warrior Princess, but still perhaps a superhero in her own right. Xena is a female piglet cloned from fetal-pig skin cells, and she may prove to be more than the latest addition to the biotech clone farm. Because of similarities between porcine and human organs, the techniques that made Xena may eventually create a supply of genetically modified pig livers that would be acceptable to the human immune system...
...remembering childhood: the Pooh, Piglet and Rabbit doors hidden in the trees and bushes between the Science Center and Littauer. Pooh lives at the base of a tree; Rabbit and Piglet are across the path and a bit harder to find. An early visit--say, before 11 a.m.--often finds small children in strollers calling good morning to Pooh in passing, or leaving "presents" inside his wooden door...