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That is debatable. But Foreign Affairs Editor William Hyland, a veteran Soviet watcher, agrees up to a point. The ideological component of the East- West struggle has receded, he writes in his new book Mortal Rivals, and that could fundamentally change the way the game is played. "Ideological conflicts brook no compromises," he explains, "but power and interests are negotiable commodities...
...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, N.C., are pleasantly surprised by the sport's new respectability. "In the '40s and '50s it was still a little embarrassing to be a bird watcher," he says. "Now there's no doubt about it -- birding...
Hotshots draw regular fire from purists for turning an aesthetic pursuit into a macho, competitive struggle. But even superlisters have been known to speak of birds with awe and wonder. Explanations for the appeal of birding proliferate, says Joseph Kastner, author of A World of Watchers, because it is hard to explain what the beauty and freedom of birds can do to the human psyche. At the heart of birding, he writes, is the "astonished awareness that comes in some unguarded moment when the watcher is left oddly vulnerable to feelings that only nature can provoke...
...veteran Harvard watcher knew, there had to be a comeback. Sophomore guard Gielen led it with a red-hot streak at the start of the second half, knocking home four swishes to help cut the Dartmouth lead...
...hasn't circulated in here in 20 years," sighs an inhabitant of Foggy Bottom who has not stopped lighting up. And at the Internal Revenue Service they are still trying to figure out what to do about both W-4 forms and cigarettes. Says an IRS watcher: "They always smoked compulsively over there...