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New best article title: "For Frog-Licking Scientist, the Tongue Says It All".

"[But] I don't recommend this," the biologist cautioned, "because if you lick the wrong frog it can be very bad."

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By 1990 Valerie was entering her hand-raised frogs into local jumping races. When a photo of her blowing on her favorite frog—to encourage jumping—landed in the Baltimore Sun, it was both exciting and worrisome: She had skipped school for the contest. Luckily, the school principal "thought it was downright hilarious," she said.

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Today Valerie, six feet tall (about two meters tall) with long copper hair, "is still kissing frogs in search of the one that will turn into her prince," [Valerie's mother] said.

Courtesy of National Geographic Magazine.