That swan! (turning Nature into a machine)

[Samuel Moyer]

Well, there are the English for you!  The French would have saved the cash
and had a nice dinner... turned the swan's problem into a nice foie gras
perhaps.

But then... maybe swans aren't as good as ducks are for cooking?

Sam

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Millison" <DMillison at ftmg.net>
To: "Pynchon-L (E-mail)" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 12:04 PM
Subject: That swan! (turning Nature into a machine)


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> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 11:57 PM
> Subject: Swan gets bionic bill - Ananova Alerting
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> Sampson the swan has been given a bionic beak.
>
> The man-made bill was fitted after his real one was cut off in a bottle
> attack.
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> He faced being fed through a tube for the rest of his life after being
> rescued by Maria Evans, who runs a bird rescue centre in Amroth, Wales.
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> Then she asked dentist Ed Hannaford to craft a plastic bill, believed to
be
> the first ever made.
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> It took him around 100 hours to build. Had he charged, man hours alone
would
> have cost £12,000.
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> An hour after it was fitted to what was left of his real beak,
> eight-year-old Sampson was eating normally and giving his mate a peck. Ms
> Evans told the Mirror: "It is a miracle. Sampson is now fighting fit."
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>
> See this story on the web at
> http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_358396.html