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Flipping the Bird

December 08, 2006

Last summer, the documentary “March of the Penguins” made the bird a darling of the Christian Right. Now, with “Happy Feet,” the penguin finds itself a symbol of the environmental movement. Bob takes a look at the politics of the penguin.


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