Word: serpentes
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...exhibits some of his humorous pieces about American history. One such work, "Watergate", deserves special mention here. The clay piece looks like a typical Washington D.C. monument, but the figures enshrined on the top bear vague resemblance to the heros of Watergate. Nixon stands in the middle holding a serpent and he has one foot on a crocodile. The roughly scrawled inscription on the base of the monument reads, "Get Back! Watergaters, crocodiles and dangergous fish-enemies. Raise not your heads. Let your mouths be closed and your gullets blocked. Back Evil Doers! Raise not your face against those...
...plant, animal, bacterium or virus. In the solution is another enzyme called a DNA ligase, which cements the foreign gene into place in the opening of the plasmids. The result of these unions are new loops of DNA called plasmid chimeras because, like the Chimera-the mythical lion-goat-serpent after which they are named-they contain the components of more than one organism...
...with characteristic panache. Sarah McClusky's bubbling Countess Rostova is particularly entertaining as is Tom Myers'' self-important Napoleon Bonaparte. Chris Clemenson squeezes the wisdom of General Kutuzov from a wonderfully wizened frame. And John Blazo as the soldier Kuragin easily seduces Natasha with a slickness worthy of the serpent in the garden...
...rather than the day, is important. The year in which one is born is one of a cycle of twelve years, each of which is assigned an animal name according to the order in which various animals came to the Buddha for blessing in the beginning of time. The serpent was the sixth animal to come, making this year the sixth year of the cycle. One's personal characteristics are determined by which animal sign one is born under...
...Serpent[those born in 1953, 1965, 1977]- You have more than your share of the world's gifts, including basic wisdom. You are likely to be a handsome, well-formed man or a graceful beautiful woman...