Word: birding
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...white female expertly playing the bottleneck guitar, Raitt was a rare bird who was quickly noticed. By 1971, when her classmates were entering their senior year, she had signed a contract with Warner Brothers...
This arrangement has been complicated by the influx of tens of thousands of women into the armed forces since the early 1980s. Many married service members have chosen to cheat with one another instead of using prostitutes. Linda Bird Francke notes in her new book, Ground Zero, that 64% of the Air Force personnel responding to a Roper Poll of Gulf War units reported sexual activity in their squads. Not that it bothered them: 77% of the Roper respondents said it had little or no effect on readiness for battle. Yet the brass has been unconvinced, especially when fraternization...
Shookley said a group of swimmers, who had taken advantage of the Early Bird hours at the MAC pool, had gotten together to discuss the closing...
...wasn't so long ago that people thought of John James Audubon (1785-1851) as a gifted illustrator, an "ornithological artist"--but he was far more than that. He was a great formal painter with (almost literally, one might say) an eagle eye. To create his great work The Birds of America, four volumes showing 497 species, life-size and engraved in full color on the largest sheets of paper then available, he would shoot each bird and wire up its corpse on a board in an attitude that seemed both aesthetically pleasing and full of information: the bird became...
Four hours after the press conference, the Indiana Pacers announced that Bird--No. 33 in the rafters--was their new coach. Bird will get an estimated $4.5 million a year to return home. His predecessor, Larry Brown, was just lured to the Philadelphia 76ers for $5 million a year. Hmmm. Kind of makes Phil Jackson wonder what he's worth, what with the Chicago Bulls headed for another title...