Word: birding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there; she didn't even sleep on it. Sheets had to be ironed perfectly for twice-weekly inspections, so like her fellow cadets, Fullilove simply slept on the floor. Yet she loved every moment of being there. "All I ever wanted to be was a bird and fly F-15s," she says. "Both my parents are Air Force. The Air Force Academy was the only place I even applied to for college. I wanted to show my patriotism...
...seems to be gaining steam. Vintage finished pictures are now being avidly collected, and new sets are being made. The Smithsonian Institution was host to an exhibit called "Paint by Number: Accounting for Taste in the 1950s," which led to a book, Paint by Number, by William L. Bird Jr. Designer Todd Oldham, who has been collecting the canvases for 20 years, recently taught the Today-show audience how to make Valentine's Day presents with paint-by-number kits. Sean Cisewski, inventory-control manager for Herrschners crafts company, says that paint-by-number kits are now the third most...
...NOTEBOOK Roundup: This Week in Peace Hong Kong: Bird Flu (Again) Milestones Verbatim...
...NOTEBOOK Roundup: This Week in Peace Hong Kong: Bird Flu (Again) Milestones Verbatim...
...husband, Ayah. Lakshmi bears six children, and the narrative voice soon jumps from Lakshmi to her children, who paint a divergent and complex portrait of their mother. Daughter Anna recounts how Lakshmi stood up to the Japanese invaders, started a business and hid her earnings, coated with bird droppings, at the top of a palm tree. "The Japanese made us all very resourceful," she relates, "but Mother was an undefeatable force." Sevenese, Lakshmi's son, sees a very different character. "I look at my mother with horrified fascination," he soliloquizes. "Material ambition is the compulsion that drives...