forget football try racing

[emeraldkity4]

<p>[Robots</a> race Camels](<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/05/kuwait.robot.reut/index.html]Robots”>www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/05/kuwait.robot.reut/index.html)

Julian Skidmore is lithe and petite, with small wrists and delicate features, and a serene but determined countenance. Watching Skidmore at work for a while, her auburn hair held back by a blue ribbon, a glint of light catching the small pearl in each earlobe, I was reminded of Gainsborough’s portrait of the young Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Then Skidmore removed her left arm from a camel’s rectum, peeled off a shoulder-length Krause Super-Sensitive disposable examination glove, and said, “Can I make you a cup of coffee?” She had completed eight of the morning’s sixteen ultrasound scans. It was time for a break.</p>

<p>–from Lulu, Queen of the Camels, by Cullen Murphy
Atlantic Monthly, October 1999

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<p>Camels are really fascinating- ever read Tracks by Robin Davidson?</p>