A large, castiron pot of beef stew was slowly simmering.

“Want some—” he saluted her with one of Julia's delicate white cups and a wry arch of eyebrow, sipped and made a face “—lemon zinger tea?” At times like this she wished she was as outgoing as Nikki or gorgeous like Bailey or even a little wild and easy with men like Valery. But she was none of those things. She was plain Carrie, the librarian, wishing she could say something snappy and clever. “If you don't like lemon zinger, pick a different kind."

the beard of grain

A recent advance in the study of this experimental system has been the use of a Xenopus hybrid which gives rise to large clones of fully identical, isogenetic animals (Kobel and DuPasquier, 1975).