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...could this amphibian, christened the Australian gastric-brooding frog, carry the eggs (and then the tadpoles) inside her stomach without having the offspring digested by stomach acid? To his amazement, Tyler found that the mother frog had the ability to turn off her stomach acids while carrying her precious cargo...
...passage. Once in the '80s, when I spent time in Kenya, I was traveling with a great naturalist/conservationist named David Western. We came upon a Masai orpul - that is, a gathering of six young warriors in the forest, a ritual feast in which they slaughtered one of their precious cows (a rare occasion) and settled down to eating the entire beast, right down to horns and hooves. They had been at it a day or two, and were disgustingly surrounded by gnawed ribs and a boiling jerrycan of guts and organs. Their adolescent systems were so jazzed by the unaccustomed...
...matter where you are, a physician's time is very precious. They don't want to spend eight minutes fumbling into a program," Goldfinger says...
...point is also that the women who have won this prize over past years make up an extraordinary group who provide leadership and mentoring to the best and brightest female students of the graduating class each year. That is something unique and precious...
...Precious Bedel and Warren, both former members of the program, told last night's audience that the chance to express themselves through writing gave them an outlet through which they were able to reform themselves...