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...referring to the death of the last Dusky Seaside Sparrow, you say the birds "stubbornly refused to move" when their habitat was destroyed by developers ((NATION, June 29)). You make it sound as if their extinction was the poor birds' fault. Over the ages, those little sparrows managed to survive hurricanes, fires and floods. But they were no match for the bulldozers. It took nature tens of thousands of years to create the Dusky Seaside Sparrow. It took man little more than two decades to wipe...
...importer, Conran displayed a passion for his craft at 14, when he excelled in metalwork and pottery at the exclusive Bryanston School, in Dorset. After studying textile design at London's Central School of Design, he free-lanced as a furniture maker before opening a home-furnishings store, called Habitat, in London in 1964. From its rows of white crockery to assemble-it-yourself pine beds and tables, Habitat offered products designed in the modernist tradition of the '30s, a kind of Bauhaus for our house: less is more, natural is better, simple is best...
High-level birding requires hunting skills such as tracking ability and a knowledge of habitat and weather, plus a knowledge of bird behavior, sounds, plumages and the pattern of small clues, sometimes called jizz, that can even reveal the identity of a distant, backlighted bird...
...years later the rare subspecies, found only on the Palos Verdes peninsula south of Los Angeles, was placed on the Federal Government's list of endangered species. Then in 1983 the city of Rancho Palos Verdes opened a new playing field in a park where locoweed had provided a habitat for the extraordinary insect. That was the last anyone saw of the blue butterfly...
...good year would see three or four shows come to the New York area, the Happy Hacker's pre-Harvard habitat. Computer shows provide an opportunity for everyone from the computer neophyte to the experienced hacker to keep tabs with the latest in techno-gadgetry...