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Muir, who holds a doctorate in poultry genetics, offers a three-credit course in basic livestock and poultry management practices. This course teaches fowl physiology and the basic principles of how to manage birds through hands-on experience at the 6000-chicken Penn State Poultry Farm...
...Joseph Baum, the inventive New York impresario who created The Four Seasons and Windows on the World. Baum now runs a promising, quasi-postmodern creation called Aurora, where eclectic new French-American cooking prevails. Among the better menu choices are the roasted pigeon with sweet garlic, lime-broiled guinea fowl and a pungent lemon hazelnut torte. Enthusiastic over what he calls le reve americain (the American dream), Pangaud says, "I love the open-mindedness of this country. You can try much more than in Europe with food and with your life. Besides, there are too many expensive restaurants in Paris...
...some other small people, in a duck suit, with Chip Zien providing the voice) is a master of "quack fu" who reads Rolling Egg and DQ magazines. He grows angry: "No more Mr. Nice Duck." He waxes philosophic: "No duck is an island." When the filmmakers grow tired of fowl puns -- about an hour after the audience does -- they switch to space opera, and Howard battles a scientist (Jeffrey Jones, funny against all odds) whose body is invaded by a giant lobster-scorpion space troll. Moviegoers who are in search of a porno Zoo Parade may enjoy the bedroom tryst...
...surely prince charming--an inviting and meticulously run theme park dedicated to the proposition that almost any fish or aquatic mammal can be trained to do almost anything. (Not so over at Cypress Gardens, where the host of the Little Critter Show became exasperated when one of his fowl performers, Quack Nicklaus, blew a stunt. Keened the trainer: "There's only so much you can teach a duck.") At Sea World the dolphins do backflips in sync; a walrus sprays his audience on cue; seals eat fish dangled by children; there are even a few humans doing water-ski daredeviltry...
...cold-footed fowl aside, the Harvard-Cornell game tradition, the thunderous roars of approval for the home side, the jeers for the visiting Harvard snobs and the sense of excitement in the building give the Crimson's visit to Ithaca a special meaning...