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...boating things that sank between the silica columns when they died. Those things may have been plants or animals or something in between. Whatever they were, they resembled small stars, or spheres with smaller spheres sticking to their outside walls. The most elaborate form had a bulbous base, a stalk and a ribbed cap. Its discoverers do not know whether it was sedentary like a mushroom or swam like a miniature jellyfish...
...Linda and Luci captivate the City of Light by doing the Watusi before the Congolese Embassy. Johnson introduces himself at a state dinner in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles by saying "I am the man who accompanied the Watusi to Paris." Seventeen indignant representatives of nationalistic African countries stalk...
Kenya's witch doctors are an impressive lot. Clad in ostrich plumes, tarbooshes, beaded caps, seashell belts and fur aprons, they emit noises even stranger than their appearance as they stalk along with pebble-filled antelope horns, porcupine quills and fly whisks. Their satchels of leopard or monkey skin bulge with the tools of their trade: magical elixirs (miti-shambd), dead and living animals, hammers, chisels and dung. They represent the only form of medical attention paid to nearly 80% of Kenya's 8,000,000 Africans and Asians, despite a government program that has spent...
...immigration affairs, maintain and jealously censor an independent cable and wireless network, and conduct external trade and finances through their own ministries. The tough, green-uniformed troopers of the People's Liberation Army-composed mostly of Communist-leaning hoodlums who had led the anti-Arab coup-still stalk the streets armed with Russian burp guns. They are backed by the 30-man Revolutionary council, a gang of malcontents led by Peking's pal Abdul Rahman Mohamed, better known as "Babu," probably East Africa's ugliest and brightest politician...
...routine. But alter he made a 6-in. incision through the duke's lean abdominal wall, the surgeon discovered that the aneurysm was even bigger than expected. 'The size of a small cantaloupe or large grapefruit," he reported. Instead of a simple balloon shape with a neat "stalk," it was "fusiform," with its base extending along the aorta. Worse, the wall of the aorta had eroded until it was on the point of rupturing...