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Swans face cruel fate in fight to save bay area

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20020423
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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS would be horrified. Environmentalists in America have proposed tackling a massive overpopulation of mute swans by clipping their wings and pairing them off for life in barren, same- sex couplings. They say the plan may not inspire poetry - certainly not that penned by Yeats in "The Wild Swans at Coole" ("Unwearied still, lover by lover, They paddle in the cold, Companionable streams or climb the air") - but it might just stop the swans getting the chop.

"I call it my life partners solution - we're very correct about our terminology," Dr William Sladden told The New York ...

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