Every other major emerging market is growing at a tortoise pace, so why not Russia?
In parts of Angola, putting a tortoise shell under your door is meant to ward off your rivals' muti.
Reforms, still moving at a tortoise pace, according to the assessment of former Finance Minister Alexey Kudrin, are underway.
It was about a tortoise in Brazil who turned up alive and well after going missing from its family more than 30 years ago.
By the time the first Chantix TV ads featuring a tortoise and a hare aired this September, the drug was already a bona fide hit.
In 2006, he designated a tortoise specimen at the Smithsonian museum as the new type specimen for the Aldabra tortoise, which he continued to call gigantea.
On Dec. 14, 2009, Shellie Ross called to her two sons, age 2 and 11, to come see a tortoise in the family's backyard in Merritt Island.
Despite the fact that the U.S. is returning, albeit at a tortoise pace, to some of its gritty manufacturing roots, China remains the go-to spot for imports.
He proposed yet another moniker dussumieri named after another Frenchman and referring to a tortoise specimen stored in a Dutch museum, which had been obtained from Aldabra in the late 1800s.
That was shrugged off as being his imagination, but some days afterward there was sign on our street with an appeal for a tortoise that had gone missing in the area.
Right now on BuzzFeed, I can watch Voldemort give a really awkward hug, find out the 25 things kids today will never have, see a tortoise amputee with a wheel for a leg, and discover the proper way to throw a pie.
The spots run 90 seconds--30 seconds more than the ones Pfizer ran for just four months last year--and hew to the same narrative as the old one, using a race between a tortoise and a Belgian hare to dramatize the fact that quitting smoking that favors the slow and steady--and that Chantix can help.
He was placed in an enclosure at a wildlife sanctuary in the coastal city of Mombasa and befriended a male tortoise of a similar colour.
Eyes rolling to the sky she acted to repair the damage as fast as a human can act, which is like being a fast tortoise running against a nimble hare, when compared with the speed of bots.
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Exhausted, confused and extremely frightened, Owen immediately ran to the safety of a giant tortoise when we released him in Haller Park.
Back at Twentynine Palms, Ken Nagy, a professor emeritus in biology from UCLA studying the reproductive habits of the reptiles, held a baby tortoise in one hand, its shell still soft.
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On the beach of an island in the Pacific, an island with black sand, hardened black lava, and nothing green growing but cactus, a British mariner with a knife in his hand was crouching before a giant tortoise.
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He added that he will build the tortoise "a beast house" of his own.
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Horace, who is of a variety known as a Herman's tortoise, was found by RSPCA inspector Nic de Calis, who contacted the owner.
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In what fairy tale will the early hare take a nap so the awakened tortoise will be allowed to somehow, miraculously get back into the race?
"Since Owen arrived on the 27 December, the tortoise behaves like a mother to it, " Haller Park tourism manager Pauline Kimoti told the BBC News website.
In September 2004, another tortoise was found after a three-mile journey across the Northumberland countryside - a trip which lasted three months.
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Achilles And The Tortoise promises to be a more light-hearted affair, focusing as it does on a talentless artist (played by the director) and his relationship with his doting wife.
The Almeida family searched everywhere (well, almost), and finally settled on the perceived reality that, maybe, after workers left a door open, their beloved tortoise just up and decided to leave.
In 1812, a German botanist named August Friedrich Schweigger studied tortoise specimens at the natural history museum in Paris.
This includes the first dodo parts found in a marsh (a complete leg) and many extinct giant tortoise with beautifully preserved shells.
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He refused to be turned on even when a female Swiss zoology graduate, smeared with tortoise hormones, gave him manual stimulation for four months.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Meaning they can reduce a forest to a lawn in a few years, leaving vulnerable animals like the Galapagos tortoise struggling to survive.
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