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Then they start fiddling with it--turning on old pseudogenes; knocking out the genes for feathers and putting back in the genes for scaly skin; tweaking the genes for the skull so that teeth appear instead of a beak; shrinking the wings, keel and wishbone (ostrich genes would be helpful here); massively increasing size and sturdiness of the body; and so on. Pretty soon they have the recipe for a big, featherless, wingless, toothy-jawed monster that looks a little like a cross between a dodo and a tiger...
...past two weeks, passersby near 44 Bow St. may have noticed a large, copper bird sporting pince-nez spectacles on its beak nesting atop the Lampoon castle...
...Internet has produced its first postmodern superhero in the form of MAHIR CAGRI, a 37-year-old man with a beak nose and, by his own admission, an interest in Ping-Pong, sex and playing the accordion. "I Kiss You!!!!!"--runs the greeting of the Mahir home page--a normal enough salutation in his native Turkey but a thrill to the hordes of fans who have sent e-mails recommending his site to friends. Cagri, who "invitates" any young women coming to his hometown of Izmir to stay in his home, has provoked Clinton-based parodies, flash animations...
Jonathan Weiner is the Pulitzer-prizewinning author of The Beak of the Finch. His most recent book is Time, Love, Memory
...gorgeous, he was very ugly. But somehow his physical apparatus was overwhelmingly tactile. When Theodore Roosevelt walked into a room and when Reagan walked into a room, you could see people luxuriating in their physical aura. A lot of Hitler's power had to do with his strange beak, the fat curved back, awkward gestures and that hyptonisingly strange face. Never underestimate the power of the body in politics...