Word: birding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brief photo op for the Chinese press. A few minutes later, we adjourned to a more private dining area, where, at his urging, we removed our jackets so we could better enjoy a nine-course dinner (including shark's fin soup, "Assorted Foods in Hot Pot," coconut juice and "Bird's Nest") and more serious drink. Jiang is warm and witty, and he has a wonderful voice that ranges--both in Chinese and in his near fluent English--from low and deep to high pitched and animated when he gets worked up over an idea or a joke...
When architectural firms began to compete for the Gap Inc. office complex in San Bruno, Calif., William McDonough saw it as a competition of ideas rather than for a contract. "Our idea," he says, "was that if a bird flew over the building, it would not know that anything had changed." If that sounds like pure eco-nut talk (I almost resist noting that McDonough is for the birds), try the question he puts to potential clients when he undertakes any of his architectural projects: "I ask, 'How do we love all children, all species, all time...
...this point, you may be wondering why this novel is called Swimming with Jonah. At Queen's, Jane meets a second year student called Keefer. Keefer is "bony as a bird," a gaunt, nervous man with an uncontrollable stutter. Having flunked one of his first-year classes, Keefer is marked out by the teachers as a failure and tortured more than anyone else. His only solace is Johan, a partially tame shark he keeps in a sea-pen not far from his cabin. Schulman attempts to use Jonah as a sort a of underpinning for this section of the novel...
...player endorsements. Laker legend Magic Johnson believes the style of play and the marketing have to change. The NBA game, which used to be speed and motion, has gone flat for most teams. The league has promoted superstars, not teams, and the play reflects it. "Magic vs. [Larry] Bird was big," Johnson told TIME. "But it became so much bigger because it was the Lakers and the Celtics. I'm hoping we can get back to that...
...Indiana Pacers actually play that way under Coach Bird. But the Lakers-Rockets game was not what Johnson had in mind. It was a sloppy, out-of-breath affair that at times resembled a Catholic Youth Organization game with really tall Catholics. But it put five big names on the floor and matched the future (Lakers) against the fading present (Rockets...