A Career Sentence for the Journalist

I was looking through the New York Times website. An article about ducks appearing in the science section caught my eye. I began reading it and came across a sentence that I figured had to be the sentence of the author's career:

Dr. Brennan was oblivious to bird phalluses until 1999.

How could a journalist write that sentence and not think "I have reached the pinnacle. Now I can die."
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