Form into the shape of a chicken, wrap in cloth and boil for two hours.

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Frank Gehry, a godfather of contemporary American design if there is one, is shown crumpling paper or aluminium foil into a form, and then scanning the shape by computer in order to reduce it to two dimensions or make it into a model, so that a design can be refined or manufactured.

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Unlike in a healthy shoulder, where the humerus ends in a ball shape and fits into the shoulder blade to form a shoulder, in reverse shoulder replacement surgery the anatomy is reversed.

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We will be able to absorb and retain the entirety of the universe's knowledge, eat as much as we want without gaining weight, shape-shift into just about any physical form imaginable, live free from disease and die at the time of our choosing.

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At present, Superbot units respond to direct instructions, such as to form legs and climb a hill or reconfigure into a snake-like shape to go through a pipe.

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Readers were quick to point out that weres can only turn into one type of animal, while shape-shifters can take any animal form.

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But the Ospreys - bidding to be the first team to successfully defend the Magners League crown - are certainly hitting form as they have won six of their last seven games going into an important four weeks that could shape their season.

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Then they dissolve into nothing, only to form as if by stealth on a different horizon, dancing across the sky in the shape of a sea horse or crescent moon.

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Anwar's former political secretary Mohamad Ezam Noor, back from exile in Indonesia, has been trying to shape the reformasi movement into a cohesive political force - though whether the authorities will allow him to form a party remains to be seen.

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