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...viewers as young Saffy on the Brit-import sitcom Absolutely Fabulous) close to desperation. Then, out of the sky, a savior drops with a thud. He is Rocky Roads (Gibson), the "flying rooster" from a traveling circus, and he vainly promises to teach the hens--this coop of flighty, flightless birds--how to soar to freedom. But while Rocky the flying churl plays up to "all the beautiful English chicks," Mrs. Tweedy has bigger, nastier plans. She has bought a machine that will turn her chicken stalag into a factory for chicken pies. The prison camp...
...their brief lives, the females of one species of twisted-wing insects called Xenos peckii live inside common paper wasps, feeding on their hosts' innards. Sightless and flightless, these tiny parasites exist only to be impregnated. The luckier males mature inside the wasps, emerge at adulthood and fly away, using their olfactory sense and their eyes to find and mate with a female inside another wasp...
Richard Wheeler wants to tell you a story about a bird--a fine but flightless bird that lived a long time ago in the North Atlantic. "A magnificent creature," he calls the great auk, "an extraordinary paddler and swimmer." Sitting on the deck of a Wareham, Mass., home adorned by portraits and a sculpture of the 2-ft.-tall black-and-white bird, the shaggy-maned Wheeler scowls when he thinks about the great auk's fate. During the 18th and 19th centuries, commercial fishing vessels scoured the waters off North America for cod. Since the all but defenseless great...
...rancher who promotes the ostrich-like bird as "the pork of the future." The ad never calls emu meat unsafe, but Fort Worth attorney John Scott says its portrayal of the birds as disreputable has dealt his clients a hard blow. In these litigious times, insult an ugly, flightless, 6-ft.-tall bird, and you may have to answer for yourself in court...
...blew a unique opportunity in your report on the electric car [BUSINESS, Dec. 15] to expose it for what it really is--a dodo: an extinct, flightless bird whose future exists only in the minds of the bureaucrats and wealthy hobbyists. Real people can't afford it. DENNIS KELLY Costa Mesa, Calif...