Word: wets
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...years earlier, and who cruelly tells the boy that he will someday kill Dad and have sex with Mom and Sis. Determined to be "the toughest 15-year-old in the world," Kafka flees the prophesy, only to collide with it at Takamatsu. Complications ensue, as do very realistic wet dreams involving both the librarian and the hairdresser. But are they dreams? And did he really kill his father? Typically, Murakami leaves strands untied, though a shaken but wiser Kafka returns home to be "part of a brand-new world." Kafka lacks the narrative consistency of Norwegian Wood...
...good news is that Vietnamese authorities, who badly mismanaged past outbreaks, are doing far more to ensure that the Year of the Rooster doesn't become the Year of Bird Flu. The southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City has closed its unhygienic wet markets, which sold live chickens and ducks, forcing all incoming poultry to be killed at slaughterhouses. Market monitors, backed by riot police, are manning checkpoints on major highways to ensure that all incoming poultry have "passports" proving that they've been inspected by government veterinarians for avian flu. Since December, 800,000 birds have been culled...
...dozen birds to eat or sell?and few keep their flocks in cages or enclosures. "Rural Vietnam is one huge free-range farm," says Anton Rychener, head of the Hanoi office of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. Although Ho Chi Minh City has shut down its once ubiquitous wet markets, it still isn't hard to find a live chicken for sale there. Two blocks from Cho Lon market, where rows of empty cages once housed squawking chickens, a vegetable vendor offers to locate live poultry for a finder's fee of about 60?. She leads her customers...
...years earlier and who cruelly tells the boy that he will someday kill Dad and have sex with Mom and Sis. Determined to be "the toughest 15-year-old in the world," Kafka flees the prophesy, only to collide with it at Takamatsu. Complications ensue, as do very realistic wet dreams involving both the librarian and the hairdresser. But are they dreams? And did he really kill his father? Typically, Murakami leaves strands untied, though a shaken but wiser Kafka returns home to be "part of a brand-new world...
...addition, the IRC sent in their own team of members to “move sensitive things to higher ground and throw away wet stuff before it caught mold,” Ho wrote in an e-mail...