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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS |
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Sounds like a lot of talk, but this shaggy beast is so valuable to Tibet that officials set up a special sperm bank |
the yak
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In August 2000 she gave Lourdes a baby brother, Rocco Ritchie |
Madonna
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Not surprisingly, in 2000 his newest Jack Ryan techno-thriller, "The Bear and the Dragon", debuted at No. 1 |
Tom Clancy
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A 1998 strike centered at Ulsan in this country saved about 1,300 Hyundai jobs |
South Korea
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For 2000 this automaker's Forester is Consumer Reports' top pick for small SUV |
Subaru
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It's the unusual mammal seen here |
(Mary Beth: What is a sloth?)
a duck-billed platypus
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This Greek-born musician seen here has a psychology degree from the University of Minnesota |
Yanni
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"Millie's Book", as dictated to this first lady, was a nonfiction bestseller in 1990 |
Barbara Bush
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Service Employees International targets office building owners in a program called "Justice for" these workers |
janitors
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"Hymne Monegasque" |
Monaco
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In a Coleridge poem, it's home to a "stately pleasure-dome" |
Xanadu
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Depending on who sired it, the offspring of a lion & tiger is called a tiglon, tigon or this |
a liger
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This soccer great was Brazil's minister of sports from 1995 to 1998 |
Pelé
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1 of 2 No. 1 bestsellers by Jacqueline Susann after "Valley of the Dolls" |
The Love Machine (or Once is Not Enough)
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Sometimes battling Boeing, the IAMAW is the International Association of these & Aerospace Workers |
(John: What are airline mechanics?)
machinists
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"Qi Lai" |
(Mainland) China
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The only male & female deer to both have antlers are the reindeer & this North American relative |
(Scott: What is an emu?) (Mary Beth: What is a gnu?)
caribou
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While the Arabian or dromedary camel has 1 hump, this species has 2 |
Bactrian
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This entertainer seen here studied classical guitar under Andres Segovia |
Charo
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His "Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet" was still high on the list when he was shot & killed in 1980 |
Herman Tarnower
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The BLE, Brotherhood of these, is fighting against having its job combined with conductor & brakeman |
engineers
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"Kong Kristian" |
(John: What is Hong Kong?)
Denmark
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The largest state capital in area, this city is bustin' out all over |
Juneau, Alaska
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The pygmy variety of this small South American monkey is barely 6 inches long |
a marmoset
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Billing himself as "The World's Foremost Mentalist", he's quite "Amazing" |
Kreskin
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This Katherine Anne Porter novel "sailed" up the list in 1962 |
Ship of Fools
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In 1995 this Bronx-born labor leader became president of the AFL-CIO |
(Alex: Scott, back to you... We'll, that's it! My gosh, that went by very quickly!)
John J. Sweeney
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"Mazurek Dabrowskiego" |
Poland
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This type of word is a blend of 2 others, like smog from smoke & fog |
a portmanteau
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