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...Birds (1934), and more than 8 million copies of Peterson's guide and its diverse updatings and amplifications have been sold. Numerous competing volumes have crowded into this commercial niche. Now the birding world is aflutter over the near simultaneous arrival of two more, highly publicized guides: Kenn Kaufman's Birds of North America (Houghton Mifflin; 384 pages; $20) and David Allen Sibley's The Sibley Guide to Birds (Knopf; 544 pages...
...authors' names alone impart heavy marquee value to knowledgeable birders. Both Kaufman, 46, and Sibley, 39, dropped out of school (Kaufman before the 11th grade, Sibley after a year in college) to study their feathered friends full time, and both quickly achieved legendary status among the reigning experts for their encyclopedic knowledge and their uncanny skill at field identification. But despite their similar backgrounds and levels of expertise, Kaufman and Sibley evidently have very different notions of what a useful field guide should...
...last 17 years, her mother worked as a partner at the law firm Kaufman and Canoles, specializing in securities...
...simple: Lewis pulled out all the stops, letting his visuals convey a feeling of uninhibited youth - what critic Myron Meisel labeled "the dizziness of irresponsibility." "Gun Crazy" also found Lewis collaborating with another misunderstood auteur - blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo wrote the script, submitting it under the name of Millard Kaufman, a fellow screenwriter who agreed to front for Trumbo...
That doesn't mean that breasts on seven-year-olds can simply be ignored. Mentally and emotionally, these kids are no different from their undeveloped peers. "They're not dyeing their hair purple and talking on the phone all the time," says Dr. Francine Kaufman, head of pediatric endocrinology at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. "They're still...