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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Attorney General Edwin Meese III (ESSAY, Aug. 11, 1986), he does not shrink from judgment. "I'm no holier-than-thou type," says Bowen, "but it has been my experience that the best guys I've known in life have had profound ethical concerns." At the top of his list of ethically minded people is his late mother, the prominent biographer Catherine Drinker Bowen, whose books chronicled the lives of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., President John Adams and 17th century English Legal Scholar and Judge Sir Edward Coke. Her well-known work Miracle at Philadelphia vividly described...
Once the genteel pursuit of an esoteric minority, birding is evolving into a mass sport. A 1980 study for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found that some 2 million Americans were highly committed birders, meaning that they watch regularly, use a field guide, keep a life list and are able to identify a hundred or more species of birds. About 7 million Americans are fairly interested birders (able to identify at least 40 species), and 60 million, or one American in four, are at least casual watchers. Veteran birders, such as L. Hartsell Cash, a retiree in Winston-Salem...
...many, the experience becomes primarily a listing game, with lists for most birds seen in a day or lifetime, a county or a season. Peterson, 78, once kept a list of birdcalls he heard on movie sound tracks. Some feel compelled to list birds seen during a single minute, or those seen while sitting in one chair for a full...
After making several trips to the Law Library in the past few days, I found that Physicist's Weekly doesn't even make the list of publications appealing to ridiculously narrow audiences. Certainly The Accountant's Digest appeals to a much smaller and more select audience. So do The Accountant's Journal, Accounting Review, and Accounting Trends and Techniques...
Lawrence Garfinkel, vice president for epidemiology and statistics at ACS, was impressed with the results. "Women can't do anything about most of the risk factors associated with breast cancer," he said. "When you add something to the list that you can do something about, those women should especially be concerned...