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...fact, the sport is sublimation posing as innocent fun: hunting without killing, collecting without avarice. "You can collect birds without worrying about a place to store them," says Claudia Wilds of Washington, an expert on shorebirds and a rising star in the birding world. "There's an awful lot of adventure in it. It allows grownups to do things they thought they had put behind them when they grew up, like sloshing around in the mud and getting up in the middle of the night and going out looking for things...
...phony charges are up, what would account for the rise? Douglas Besharov, a child-welfare expert at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, concludes that three-fourths of false accusations come from adults, not children. Laws in every state require teachers, nurses and other professionals to report any suspicion of sexual abuse, with penalties for failing to do so. Also judges are increasingly less willing to assign children automatically to mothers. The result: some wives use false accusations as a weapon of last resort...
Mehl, who heads the Commission on Math and Sciences, proposed using the fund to develop a mathematics and science curriculum for South African secondary schools in collaboration with Ed School lecturer David Perkins, an expert in the field...
Berkeley's history of art department earlier this year asked Clark, an expert on 19th century French art, if he were interested in a lifetime position there, said the department's acting chairman Loren W. Partridge. The Berkeley department approved Clark'snomination, and the offer is currently undergoingthe university's review process, Partridge said...
...even sole, Soviet target. West Germans suggest two ideas: 1) demand that the Soviets destroy ^ many of their under-300-mile-range missiles as well as longer-range types; 2) condition a missile deal on a Soviet commitment to reduce conventional forces in Europe. Says Volker Ruhe, a Bundestag expert on defense policy and adviser to Kohl: "Things are too much concentrated on solely nuclear issues." Tying missile negotiations to conventional-arms cuts, however, risks drawing out the nuclear talks forever. U.S.-Soviet negotiations on conventional-force reductions in Europe have been droning on in Vienna for 13 years...