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Veterinarians attached the wheel to the tortoise's shell using an epoxy adhesive, and the animal took to the new device immediately, WSU officials said.

Tortoise gets artificial wheel at vet hospital 2011

Researchers report them living in vertical slits in Thai mountain waterfalls, areas most turtles could never climb to, and a climate few of the giant's tortoise's brethren could brave.

Arthur Rosenfeld: Saving a Living Treasure of Asia Arthur Rosenfeld 2011

Billy Williams, the tortoise's owner, says he's had Roger since the tortoise was the size of a tennis ball.

50-lb. tortoise stolen in Delaware 2010

That confidence is borne of a methodical pace that has been on display since McConnell won his first Senate race in 1984, always favoring the tortoise's approach over the hare's.

McConnell doubles down on outsider candidates 2010

Someone with experience can look at a tortoise's shell and tell you which island the animal came from.

Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle: Where Animals Don't Run Away 2009

Then there was my visit in the 1990s in which I got lost several times, walked into an armed road-block in the middle of the night (luckily the police were checking cars, not pedestrians), photographed most of the local flora and saved a tortoise's life (it had fallen on its back); I'm sure that all of this is recorded in the local annals somewhere ... possibly?

Necropolis Walter Jon Williams 2009

In fact, during the time it takes Achilles to reach the tortoise's location at the beginning of that time, the tortoise will always have moved some distance ahead, so that every time Achilles reaches the tortoise's new starting point, the tortoise will be ahead some.

Zeno of Elea Palmer, John 2008

Likewise, during the time it then takes Achilles to reach the new point the tortoise has reached (t1), the tortoise will have progressed some new distance (d2) beyond the tortoise's new starting point, namely to t2, as follows:

Zeno of Elea Palmer, John 2008

Though they kept India poor - what the economist Jagdish Bhagwati calls "the non-revolution of falling expectations" - they were the carapace on the tortoise's back.

Simon Jenkins: Bush Gives a Glimmer of a Gandhian Humility 2008

But I just have to take a page out of the tortoise's book--slow and steady.

dreams and complaints asakiyume 2007