tortoise

But over a lifetime, as I’ve written before, investing as if there is no alternative to stocks will demand that you have the patience of a tortoise and the emotions of a stone.

Just a week earlier, customs officials said they had arrested another smuggler carrying snakes, tortoises and a raccoon.

He owns a pet tortoise he named Tyrosine after an amino acid, and dreams of being an orthodontist after he retires from racing.

Oh, and the two giant tortoises out back.

Twentynine Palms, Calif. — Desert tortoise burrows dot Cindy Bernard’s property in Indian Cove, a sprawling residential neighborhood just outside Joshua Tree National Park.