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Feb 23 2005

    Obese chicks get recognition: In  book he say, "A slump buster (When you're batting 0-20) you sleep with the most obese chick to break spell. 

 Juiced baseball martyrs: Some players make the sacrifice for whole team by sleeping with obese chicks.

Canesco says if I was 0-40 I wouldn't sleep with any fat girl.

   Queen mum snubs wedding. 

      Bonds says, Steroids and media are racist.

  She came out to the Zwamp and watched two calves play, I think after 15 years in NE & NYC she is getting soft.

 The red ooze meets the red muck: Newt warns DeLay about ethics. HUH

At the Brookfield Zoo, cicadas are a lot more than just really noisy insects: They're delicious treats.

These days, a host of animals from bearded dragon lizards to African wild dogs to white-crested laughing thrush birds are enjoying cicadas.

And zoo nutritionists _ not to mention the mothers of all those lizards, dogs and birds _ don't have to worry. Although the cicadas emerging this month after spending 17 years underground may seem like candy to the animals _ crunchy on the outside and soft in the center _ they're actually health food.

"They're extremely nutritious and won't impact their (animals') diets because they don't have a lot of fat in them," Tim Sullivan, the zoo's behavioral husbandry manager, said Friday.

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