Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week intrepid birders--they don't call themselves bird watchers anymore--were combing western Washington and southwestern British Columbia in pursuit of, among other species, the black-footed albatross and crested myna. Or they were in southeastern Arizona, stalking the violet-crowned hummingbird and sulphur-bellied flycatcher, all the while praying for a glimpse of the rare eared trogon...
...Peterson's Guide were printed at first; the publisher, Houghton Mifflin, doubted whether much of the reading public would be interested. A second printing was ordered after the first one sold out in one week, and the Peterson bird guides--he added one covering the species of the Western U.S. in 1941--have been selling, to the tune of some 7 million copies, ever since. Peterson produced, alone or with collaborators, scores of other guides on such subjects as wildflowers, butterflies, mammals and minerals. His books have been translated into a dozen languages. He received scads of awards and honorary...
...shuffling harmonica sounds like it could be background music for Hee Haw, and host Martin Kratt is all got up in cowboy boots and a bandanna just like the country show's star, Roy Clark. This episode, Kratt explains in a humorously fake Western accent, will focus on bovines, "the puurtiest darn cows I've ever seen." But he's not talking about barnyard animals, and his brother and co-host Chris waddles onto the scene to set things straight. The show is actually about sea cows. What are sea cows? Ah, that's the fun on Kratts' Creatures--finding...
...worked with Russian political parties in 1994 and '95, and I want to stress that Russians ran the '96 campaign and Russians won the election. By now, Russian political activists have sufficient experience in using Western campaign technology, including formulating a main message and using focus groups for testing political ads. Your article made it appear that the election team consisted of four Americans, candidate Yeltsin and his daughter. A more accurate picture would include roughly 1,000 activists from different political parties who pulled together to make sure the communists did not take back all the advances that Russia...
...other severe suffering. "It's difficult to expect them to work in the fields and repair the vast new flood damage with so little to eat," Hauser says. The United Nations appeal for food aid to compensate for last year's flooding drew little support, in part because western opponents of the Pyongyang regime argued that giving such help would merely prop up the communists, and would probably be funneled to the army instead of civilians. -->