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...occasion, she led his armies into battle. Her tomb contained 200 bronze vessels, some 600 sculptures and ritual objects of jade and stone. Most charming among the bronzes is a pitcher in the shape of an owl; among the jades is a stylized crested bird with a sweeping tail that any art deco designer could be proud...
Judging from the warm reception that American visitors receive, the Somali public would welcome a formal military cooperation agreement. Now that the Soviets are gone, many of the harsher vestiges of the police state, like the thugs who used to tail every foreign visitor, have disappeared...
...meter run, Dixon held on to an early lead to break the tape at 3:52.71. Tri-captain Thad McNulty, who later in the day won the 800 meters in 1:54.04, bagged second at 3:53.07, while freshman Eric Schuler, on Tiger Dan Challener's tail for much of the race, pulled by him in the last yards to take third at 3:54.38 to complete the Crimson sweep...
...active female mounts a passive one, curves the tail under the other's body, strokes the partner's back and neck, joins genital regions, and rides on top for one to five minutes. The active female lizard always has small undeveloped eggs, while the passive female has large pre-ovulatory eggs. But there are cyclic variations in behavior and egg size in these reptiles, and roles reverse; the passive female of one encounter can be the active partner of the next. Says Crews: "We are now trying to determine whether this malelike behavior facilitates reproductive function." Translation...
...surging, crinkled look of brain coral, providing a dream landscape, almost subaqueous, in malachite green, pink and blue, woven to gether by the twisting trees. A tense springiness seems to run through every shape, visible in the arabesques of a bush no less than in the lashing tail of the lion or the trampling feet of the horse Rakhsh...