The Duck Stamp Story celebrates birds and habitat protection
A review of The Duck Stamp Story by Eric Jay Dolin and Bob Dumaine highlights the Federal Duck Stamp Program as a model of conservation. It covers stamps from 1934, funds raised, habitat purchases, artist contests, and the book's detailed history, value to collectors, and how to obtain a copy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wildlife Department
Fish and Wildlife Service
Eric Jay Dolin
Bob Dumaine
Krause Publications
Colin and
Dumaine
Hautman
Minnesota
Jim
Bob
Joe
Marge
Fargo
North America
Duckstampstory
Dear Abby Readers Face DUI Dilemmas and Marital Struggles
In California a reader questions a friend with a DUI driving his son after baseball practice. Abby warns against riding with someone suspected of drinking and urges honesty to protect the child. A separate query from Oregon about a wife’s 2 a.m. outings leads to marriage counseling advice and a warning to save the relationship.
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Abby
California
Oregon
NYC seeks proposals to privatize worst NYC schools
New York City plans to privatize its lowest performing schools by converting them into charter schools in a major first for the system. Schools Chancellor Harold Levy called for proposals to begin by fall 2001, aiming to start with five to ten schools and potentially up to twenty, with state approval required for charter status and meaningful regulatory flexibility.
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Nyc
New York
New York City
Harold O. Levy
Board of Education
Levy
State Board of Regents
Squawking blue jay returns as yard favorite in seasons
Seasonal column praises the blue jay as a striking, vocal yard bird. It notes the bird’s beauty, bold behavior at feeders, and seasonal movement, explaining past nesting habits, male courtship, and winter flocks migrating from Canada and northern states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jay
Canada
Drug offenders jailed at startling rate in states
A Justice Policy Institute study using Justice Department and Census Bureau data finds drug offenders in state prisons tripled from 1986 to 1996, with black inmates on drug charges quintupled. The report covers 37 states and cites political pressure and moral panic as drivers, while endorsing rehabilitation options in California and Massachusetts.
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San Francisco
Justice Policy Institute
Justice Department
Census Bureau
National Corrections Reporting Program
Franklin Zimling
Zimring
United States
George Soros
Open Society Institute
Soros
California
Massachusetts
America
White House
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Duck Stamp
Sted
Stel.edu
Ecoview
By Whit Gibbons
Dear Abby
Abigail van Bure
Sociated Press
Birds & Things
Eulali Gibbs
University of California-Berkeley
Justice
Aiken Technical College
ATC
Richmond
Columbia Counties
Georgia
South Carolina
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