Word: watcher
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...staring at the tree with binoculars from a distance of about 20 ft. Is the owl not home? Is it using some owl camouflage power on us? Is this even the right tree? In the past hour Franzen, 47, who's a pretty hard-core bird watcher, has already spotted California quail, some towhees, a scrub jay, a flicker and a few acorn woodpeckers. So far no owl, though...
...National Lawyer's Guild, the San Francisco Chronicle's editorial board, and San Francisco's Board of Supervisors have all voiced support for Wolf. The blogosphere, by contrast, hasn't yet elicited a rousing cheer for Wolf, with a few exceptions like the Huffington Post and Silicon Valley Watcher. Neither the popular political blog The Daily Kos nor ourmedia.org, a site for the participatory media movement, covered Wolf's jailing...
...Resources Behavior like that does not go down well in the U.S. In a speech in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius in May that provoked a furious reaction in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney warned Moscow against using energy as "tools of intimidation and blackmail." One conservative Russia watcher, Ariel Cohen of the Washington-based Heritage Foundation, says that "Russia had a very good opportunity to become a major alternative exporter [to the U.S.] in 2001 and 2002, but it has missed that opportunity by not behaving as a civilized partner." In Europe, the rhetoric is less pointed...
...were turning back the clock to 1950. But Maoist China is hardly what the current leaders are striving to replicate. "The new leadership is keen to promote this socialist banner because it recalls an era when there was no challenge to the Communist Party," says Joseph Cheng, a China-watcher at City University in Hong Kong. "With unrest rising all over China, they want a justification for their monopoly on political power...
...Lowellian in entryway E, room 31 may have been early-morning channel surfing but to the complainants nearby, his or her television-watching was too loud. Police responded to the disturbance complaint last Friday, Feb. 3 urging the boisterous watcher to turn it down. The Lowellian complied...