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According to various estimates, anywhere from 42 million to 60 million Americans consider themselves bird watchers--birders, to use the preferred term among the faithful. These people spend roughly $20 billion a year on items ranging from seed for backyard feeders to high-priced guided tours in pursuit of rare or exotic species. Only two purchases are required, however, to get started: a pair of binoculars and a field guide, i.e., a book illustrating the identifying characteristics of birds encountered in nature. A good field guide is a bird in the hand...
This conservative switch led Texas Gov. George W. Bush to make multiple visits to the state, campaigning hard and trying to embarrass Gore in his own backyard. Both candidates aired a deluge of television ads and made campaign appearances in the state during the final hours before the election...
...while the Hubble is good at locating faint celestial objects, the follow-up science is often done by observatories on the ground. In essence, the Hubble is like the small finder telescopes backyard astronomers use to pinpoint interesting objects for their full-size telescopes...
...shows as a kid in the backyard," Fennessy said. "I'm doing the same thing now as I've always done--maybe on a different level, but still the same things...
...which authenticity is at a premium, the populism is real to him. It takes him back to where he started in politics. "Al Gore inherited a fighting streak for the underclass from his father," says longtime Gore adviser Roy Neel. "If you were a poor factory worker with a backyard satellite dish in rural Tennessee as your only real link to the world and big cable companies were telling you to shove it, then Al Gore was your...