In a campaign so far defined by hogs and chickens, the race for the open Iowa Senate seat that most expected to fall to Democrats is now perhaps the closest in the country.
Romania: Gicu Grozav, 24, bought by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov's Terek Grozny for €2.1m in 2013, now back in Romania running down his contract by "raising chickens and racing pigeons".
In the case of my daughter, the trade-off is very clear: A bundle of risks, or the thriving life-lover who writes poetry about her chickens and races after a soccer ball as if, in that moment, it were the only thing that existed.
Running a business can make you feel like you're a chicken in a race every day.
And while even the fastest man on earth, who famously swears by pre-race chicken nuggets, won't dent that supply, Matthews isn't taking chances.
Zainab's parents are acutely aware of their poverty and desperate to give their children opportunities that extend beyond Tabata Kisiwani, where their eldest daughter shares a tatty bed with her grandmother, the poorly screened hole-in-the-ground-toilet is used by 20 people, and chickens and children race around the dirty, labyrinthine alleyways.
Not surprisingly, there were some who disagreed, who want to believe that Bolt earned that record through hard work, powerful homegrown yams and his pre-race Chicken McNuggets.
The glass front makes it possible to consume chicken while watching the race.
KENTUCKY IS FAMOUS mainly for fried chicken, bourbon and horse-racing.
Not for Rudisha the chicken nuggets and pre-race clowning that Bolt has delighted in since those epoch-changing nights in Beijing's Bird's Nest four years ago.
