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...Audubon Society Book of Water Birds (Abrams; 256 pages; $35) presents enthralling photographs of creatures that seem made for metaphor. They are clouds hovering pink and white across the surface of a lake, dive bombers plummeting to strike seaborne prey, bankers in tuxedoes posing in comic solemnity at a social event on an ice floe. But the easy, intelligent prose of Authors Les Line, Kimball L. Garrett and Kenn Kaufman allows the real creatures -- from the lava heron of the Galapagos to the bald eagle -- to emerge from the metaphors in full dimension. Not all the faces are pretty...
More than just the stock market took a dive last month. Housing starts plunged by 8.2% in October, to an annual rate of 1.5 million, the lowest level in more than four years. Economists blamed steep mortgage rates, which rose from a national average of about 9% in January to nearly 12% by Black Monday, Oct. 19. Since the stock-market crash, mortgage rates have dipped to just below 11%, but that does not guarantee a quick recovery in the housing market. One reason, aside from the fact that many potential customers suffered big paper losses in the market meltdown...
...League has sent two teams to the slaughter. Dartmouth took a dive, 62-23, and Brown rolled over, 41-0. In the Brown game, the Cross used a hurry-up offense in the last two minutes simply to ensure a 40-point margin of victory...
...equipment, businesses would look for bargains in used plants and machines. That would mean less work for contractors, carpenters and other members of construction crews. Richard Snow, director of the Associated General Contractors of Greater Milwaukee, conceded that area contractors were worried. "No hardhat is going to take a dive off an unfinished apartment building," he said, "but this crash could have serious effects down the road...
...third and two, Brown's Little was tackled by Richard Mau half a yard short of the first down. On fourth down, Little's dive into the left side of the line was stopped short by inches, and Harvard took over...