Word: birding
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...Kevin Brown, Dodgers: Won with little run support last year; that should get better this time around 2. Randy Johnson, Diamondbacks: There's a bird-in-the-hand joke here somewhere, but we're not going to stoop so low 3. Greg Maddux, Braves: Injuries might cost him, but still capable of dominating the league...
...shale ridges. Upon breaching a pass, we stopped for lunch, while the support trucks and mobile kitchen took the low road. As we rode, the pure air was scented with wild mint and garlic brushed by the horses' hooves. The grunt of a yak, a marmot whistle or a bird's wing-beat carried undisturbed across the valley...
...unique in the world" b) "And this bird you cannot change" c) "I'm Vlad Putin, yes, I'm the real Putin...
...bodies are gone, carted to a field outside town and buried. But signs of the massacre remain. Four circles of bonfire ash are dotted with personal effects of the victims: a rifled plastic wallet, a tube of lipstick, the shoe of a very small child on which Tweety Bird still cavorts under a coating...
...Gore Vidal, in his lovely essay called "Some Memories of the Glorious Bird" - actually a review of Tennessee Williams' memoirs - wrote with immense affection of 1948. He remembered the year as a golden age, best savored in Rome or New York City. Best Year tends to be the year when you were young and strong, and had just made the giddy discovery that you could commit great follies and survive them - the discovery that you were, for practical purposes and for the indefinite future, immortal...