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Singin' like a Bird...
...latest issue Uncle Gabby discovers a baby bird outside his window. Already something seems wrong. The baby bird looks and acts like a real baby bird. It doesn't talk or look cute. Anne-Louise, the little girl who takes care of Uncle Gabby and Mr. Crow, warns them against playing with it. But Uncle Gabby really thinks the bird will get a kick out of his new toy, Chinese Handcuffs. Soon the poor thing plummets to its death...
...sense that make it hard to dismiss "Sock Monkey" as something pointlessly ironic. The other part is Millionaire's talent for language. Characters have a strange, arched sort of "voice," unlike any I've experienced. At one point Mr. Crow says, "Why is it that I am the only bird on the American scene who cannot fly?" It's that "on the American scene" that gets me. Such stylings have a stilted delicacy that perfectly matches...
eBay is also the Internet's clearest example of a company that has exploited its "first mover" advantage. The lore among Internet strategists was that whoever nabbed Web space early would have a commanding commercial lead. The failure of a long list of early-bird dotcoms, from CompuServe to eToys, has proved that wrong...
BLUE-FOOTED BOOBY Galapagos bird endangered by tanker oil spill. Man takes an evolutionary step backward...