Bird watching from a Florida highway with birds and birds
Jeff Klinkenberg shares a roadside meditation on birding while driving 55 mph along State Road 70 in Central Florida. He describes crested caracaras, pelicans, hawks, egrets, and other species seen from moving vehicles, the risks of weaving and description of blue highways and practical tips for discreet roadside birding.
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Sabal Palms
Florida
Amazon Rain Forest
Blue Ridge Parkway
North Carolina
Peterson
Birds of Prey
Jeff Klinkenberg
St. Petersburg
Fla
Parking rules harm Hood College student helper
Lisa Skaggs of Hood College writes to The Frederick Post to urge a change in downtown parking and street cleaning regulations. She details nightly restrictions that force her to park far from her elderly neighbor and face repeated $5 fines while providing essential late night care. She proposes alternately applying restrictions to one side of a street each night to allow nearby parking and safety.
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Frederick Post
Hood College
Frederick
Not Doing Enough: Rooneys on Cruelty and Global Apathy
Andy Rooney reflects on cruelties in China, from monkey tables to dog eating, and asks what individuals or nations can do. He weighs American intervention, the Iraq war, and the limits of influencing worldwide suffering, concluding that focusing on one's own country may be the pragmatic path.
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China
Eir
Chungking
Iraq
America
Bush
Saddam Hussein
Baghdad
Norman Schwarzkopf
United States
Iran
Syria
Jordan
Turkey
Israel
Middle East
Tribune Media Services
Law, liberty and the lawyer in American society
Seymour B Stern Md Bar president argues that law dominates life, not out of malice but due to societal demand. He cites rising lawyer numbers from 4000 in Maryland in 1962 to 20000 now and predicts 1,000,000 nationwide by 2000. He urges reforms to streamline justice and expand pro bono work to prevent drift toward anarchy.
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Illiam Shakespeare
Maryland
United States
Our Republic
Congress
Lawrence M. Friedman
Maryland State Bar Association
American Bar Association
William Shakespeare
Rome
Brutus
Seymour B. Stern
Frederick
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Lisa Skaggs
Frederick City
Berry’s
Beinir
Andy Rooney
MD. Bar
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