Reptiles feeling right at home (The Beacon News)
September 30, 2006 on 12:05 am | In Uncategorized | No CommentsAURORA — If reptiles could talk … Alligator: Hey, tortoise, what do ya think of these new digs? Tortoise: Oh, it’s peaceful over here in the desert, Al. How’s the water?
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The Beatles, Football and Me, by Hunter Davies (Independent)
September 30, 2006 on 12:05 am | In Uncategorized | No CommentsThe first rule of hackery, to use Hunter Davies’s inelegant word, is that “anything and everything can be turned into copy”. He makes the point while telling us of a family tortoise that would come into the house and use the polished kitchen floor as a skating rink. “Tortee” was processed into a story for the children’s TV programme Jackanory, voiced by Patricia Routledge.
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The tortoise and those Democratic hares (Jewish World Review)
September 30, 2006 on 12:05 am | In Uncategorized | No Commentshttp://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Despite their dreams of recapturing one or both houses of Congress this November, the Democrats seem determined to reprise their poor showings in 2002 and 2004. Now, as then, they are dozing in the campaign’s homestretch, like Aesop’s hare, lulled by rosy predictions and the premature applause of Hollywood and the mainstream press.
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Ethiopian ‘Sesame Street’ seeks to fill educational void (AFP via Yahoo! News)
September 30, 2006 on 12:05 am | In Uncategorized | No Comments In the sing-song voice of a little girl, Tsehai, an inquisitive, wide-eyed giraffe, speaks to Ethiopian youngsters about the dangers of drinking unclean water, littering and deforestation.
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Blessing, Walk Reserved For Animals (gazettes.com)
September 30, 2006 on 12:05 am | In Uncategorized | No CommentsFrom pot-bellied pigs to French bulldogs and tortoise-shell kittens to parakeets, hundreds of animals will be blessed at the Fifth Annual Interfaith Blessing of the Animals at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Heartwell Park, located at Carson Street and Clark Avenue, as part of the Annual Walk to Save the Animals event.
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Green Tortoise hostel coming down (Puget Sound Business Journal)
September 28, 2006 on 12:05 am | In Uncategorized | No CommentsThe Green Tortoise Hostel on Second Avenue in downtown Seattle is being destroyed this week to make room for a 38-story condominium tower.
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Rare tortoise heals in Senatobia shop (The Democrat)
September 28, 2006 on 12:05 am | In Uncategorized | No CommentsAn endangered tortoise probably owes its life to an anonymous savior.
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Nigeria: Tortoise’s Grand Marriage (AllAfrica.com)
September 28, 2006 on 12:05 am | In Uncategorized | No CommentsThere once lived a lazy tortoise, who depended on his father for everything. Realising that he would not live forever, the father would advise the tortoise everyday to work hard and strive to become self-supporting.
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Performance v/s Progress (Deccan Herald)
September 28, 2006 on 12:05 am | In Uncategorized | No CommentsI always thought the moral of the story of the hare and the tortoise was that the ’slow and steady’ would win the race. One day a child asked me, “Uncle, how come the hare was so stupid. Why didn’t he go to sleep after the finish line?”
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Zeno’s Paradox of Achilles versus the Tortoise, Calculus 101, and Nuclear Reactor Safety (Energy Pulse)
September 28, 2006 on 12:05 am | In Uncategorized | No CommentsOne would think that the mathematics of the ancient Greeks, circa 450 B.C. would have had time to diffuse into our journalistic, political, and cultural elites by now.
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