Hong Kong is the latest port of call for the duck.

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Some might call it a duck.

BBC: May: A month of goodbyes

This will come just as a lame-duck Congress is getting ready to call it a year and a session.

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The duck here is so popular that you need to call in advance to order one (or arrive after 2:30pm and be prepared to wait).

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The election call, of course, makes Barak a lame duck in respect to any new peace initiatives with the Palestinians, although the Israeli leader will be inclined to pursue dialogue over a political solution if his plan is to make the election a referendum on peace.

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Unfortunately for the duck, humans like to hunt them as well, for what some call "sport".

BBC: Just quackers: Hunting decline lands ducks in the soup

The old Pasteurella pestis, as we used to call it in those glorious primitive days when drugs worked, was duck soup for a half dozen anti-biotics.

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