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...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...
...reasons for increasing tuitions and decreasing financial aid may be sound, but as Columbia senior Winston A. Willis says, "obviously the educational system will continue, but it won't be as diverse. It will suffer without input from Black and minority minds...
Foundation representatives "have been unequivocal in stating their intention to sustain the program for three years," said Jay Winston, director of the SPH's Center for Health Communication. Harvard will continue to donate to the program in kind, but does not plan direct financial support, he added...
Walesa spent a year writing the book, which has sparked a heated publishing dispute. The manuscript was smuggled from Poland to the French publisher Editions Fayard after the New York City-based firm of Holt, Rinehart & Winston, which had initiated the project, asked for extensive revisions. The book, explained a Holt editor, lacked the "authentic voice" of Walesa. That did not stop Fayard, which translated the text into French and secreted it back to Walesa and his aides for approval. So far, Warsaw officials have not commented on the book, which is certain to burn up Poland's underground publishing...
...Bell, the manufacturer of Wrangler jeans, shut down its Greensboro, N.C., headquarters after the company was acquired by VF Corp. That put 300 people out of work and meant the end of Blue Bell's strong support of Greensboro's arts and civic activities. Thirty miles to the west, Winston-Salem was dealt a similar blow after R.J. Reynolds merged with Nabisco Brands in 1985. Last month RJR Nabisco announced it will move its corporate headquarters from Winston-Salem to Atlanta, taking along not only some 250 jobs but the considerable corporate prestige and financial largesse that Reynolds had showered...