Word: quails
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...species. The breakthrough, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, comes just a week after scientists stunned the world by cloning an adult mammal and further demonstrates science fiction's uncanny knack for becoming reality. In the experiment, a chicken was made to act like a quail by transferring certain brain cells from a quail embryo to the brain of a chicken embryo. Once hatched, the chicken's movement's resembled those of a quail. "It turns out there's a part of the quail's brain that I can transfer into a chicken that makes...
...failed conversion, Barber pitched out to back Jabbar Craigwell, who then attempted a forward pass. But the Harvard defense swarmed him, and he launched a dying quail that didn't reach the line of scrimmage. That was key, for now Harvard needed only to get the ball back and maintain possession to seal the deal, as time was running out on the clock...
...topic generally accepted on serious editorial pages. It is shunted aside for domestic crisis and political intrigue, pushed to the back of Sunday magazines and relegated to Wednesday supplements. Men of power and women of means do not deign to discuss the particulars of a succulent piece of quail or the lightness of a perfectly-cooked souffle, preferring instead to jabber about the stock market or their pet poodles. They do not understand the obsession of the "foodie," the person for whom the best of life can be summed up in one divine meal...
...very initials made people quail. The Soviet Union's Committee for State Security -- the KGB -- was not just an intelligence agency: it was a terrifying, repressive secret-police monolith that controlled the lives of ordinary Soviet citizens and most of the country's leaders, and fought in the trenches of the cold war as well. When the U.S.S.R. broke up in late 1991, so did the KGB, though some say the vast organization has simply metastasized. As Secretary of State Warren Christopher noted last week, Moscow's intelligence service "may have changed its name, but it has probably not changed...
Silver says he prepares quail, duck, pheasant, turkey and even rabbit for discriminating patrons...