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Even the most driven birders seem to harbor a few doubts about the chasing game. "It's ridiculous -- it costs more money than booze and takes more time," says Thompson Marsh, a professor at the University of Denver College of Law. Marsh, 84, who began listing birds in 1918, still hunts with the pack and is ranked fifth on the North American list. If someone wants to start a Birdwatchers Anonymous, says Marsh, he is ready to join. "I experience recurring intervals of lucidity," he says. "When a chaffinch turned up in New Brunswick, I stayed right here...
...birders often fly hundreds of miles only to find a bird that cannot be officially listed. Last winter Marsh and other top birders went to Charleston, S.C., to see a rare bird, said to be a gray-headed gull but that could be ruled a hybrid. "It's always a crapshoot," says Paul Sykes, a Georgia ornithologist. "The bird can also leave just before you get there. That's why we try to get there as quickly...
...Division of Public Health recommended that Dartmouth students not leave the state," says Marsh E. Jones, a Dartmouth spokesman. "They have also advised that all those susceptible to the disease not enter Hanover," she adds...
Throughout the week, both Jerusalem and Washington took tentative steps toward repairing the damage. The Reagan Administration allowed Army Secretary John O. Marsh to make a previously scheduled trip to Israel. The Shamir government, reacting to pressure from Congress, announced that it would not sign new military sales contracts with South Africa, although existing commitments would be unaffected. But the impasse over the Pollard affair was far from over. Declared a Western diplomat in Tel Aviv: "The Israelis have to understand that Washington wants blood...
...Hrkac] is extremely quick," Marsh said. "He can just take off on a dime...