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...also has a reputation for hard-nosed competition in listing. Fifteen years ago, only about 75 people had seen 600 birds in North America. Now more than 500 have topped that figure, and 75 have seen 700. James Vardaman, a forest-management executive from Jackson, Miss., spent $45,000 and 170 days trying to see 700 birds during 1979. Vardaman, who called himself an amateur, paid guides and tipsters, jetted off after almost every rarity and ended the year listing 699 birds. Basham broke the 700 mark in 1983, and many birders dream of pushing the total higher...
...Fifteen years of surviving on the road in a de-radicalized America seemed to have linked them deeper into the blues tradition than the abstractly felt social issues of their youth. And being the ones who led the '60s revival in the first place, they don't rely on anyone to revive them. Their rollicking blend of country-western and cajun blues stands on its own, without glitz...
...Fifteen years ago, scientists began noticing that the earth's protective ozone layer was being depleted by a group of chemicals known as chlorofluorocarbons. They warned that deterioration of the ozone, which blocks the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays, could lead to an increase in skin cancer and disastrous climatic changes, including an overall warming of the earth's atmosphere...
...Fifteen students, all juniors, opted to transfer to a new house this semester. Among these, transfers to the Quad are not as uncommon as people might think. While the housing office refuses to give out information about which houses are most popular for transfers, Sharon Morrow, assistant to the master in North House, says that this year the Quad house had more people move in than left for another house...
...rescued by her maternal grandparents and taken to live once again in Seattle. Her new home is spacious and comfortable. Her guardians make gentle attempts to keep the headstrong girl in check: "My grandmother had statutory ages for everything, sixteen for boys, fourteen for real, non-ribbed silk stockings, fifteen perhaps for lipstick." These restrictions do not keep Mary from losing her virginity during her sophomore year in high school...