The six-foot-long nose, with a bird's nest swaying at the end of it, was somebody else's thought.

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It struck her that a dish, titled "Birth, " using the remnants of her foie gras supply combined with a bird's nest, would represent a new beginning.

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Few in that country can forget the impressive sight of Li Ning, himself in a track suit of his own design, being hoisted up at the Bird Nest stadium to light the torch during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

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