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...Odear of High Point, N.C., traded down in life to be a full-time part of the birding world. Once the president and general manager of Wrangler jeans, Odear quit to make "one-third the money" running a birding company called Bob-O-Link and its phone service, the North American Rare Bird Alert. For $25 a year, subscribing birders are given a code name and the right to dial into a tape, changed as often as three times a day, listing the whereabouts of all known rarities in North America...
...only bright spot for liberals in the election returns was the showing of three reform-minded independent candidates. Wynand Malan, who quit the National Party in January to protest the government's slow changes on racial issues, scored an easy victory in Johannesburg's Randburg district. Denis Worrall, South Africa's former Ambassador to Britain, came within just 39 votes of beating Minister of Constitutional Development Chris Heunis, the architect of Botha's reform program and his possible successor, in Heunis' once safe Helderberg district near Cape Town. In the Afrikaner university town of Stellenbosch, another Nationalist defector, Esther Lategan...
Many smokers may secretly welcome the corporate crusade against smoking. Says Robert Rosner, executive director of the Seattle-based Smoking Policy Institute, a consulting firm that advises companies on how to formulate smoking policies: "The fact is, most smokers want to quit." Many of them embrace the new corporate activism as an incentive to give up tobacco once and for all. At Rhode Island's Newport Daily News, it was the smokers who unanimously voted to ban smoking from the premises, although taking a drag is not a cause for dismissal...
...called Josephson junctions (after Nobel Laureate Brian Josephson, the British physicist who discovered the principle on which they are based), which until now could operate only at liquid-helium temperatures. For both technical and economic reasons, IBM abandoned its Josephson junction project in 1983. But IBM Physicist Sadeg Faris quit the company, obtained licenses for the technology and formed Hypres, Inc., which has begun marketing its first Josephson junction product -- a high-speed oscilloscope. Says Faris: "The new materials are at a primitive stage, but we're anxious to exploit them to bring down costs and improve speed." Since switches...
...George Walker, who quit his job as a bank executive to join a foundation working for an end to apartheid: "Change in this country has to come from us Afrikaners. And I want...