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These days, however, children's museums have been dusted off, jazzed up and wired for action. Young visitors are increasingly encouraged to explore a host of interactive exhibits. Raised on mornings with Big Bird and vacations at Disney World, today's kids are sophisticated "infotainment" consumers. Birmingham sixth-grader Tracy Brunson speaks for many of her peers when she says, "Walking and looking is boring. Touching is funner...
...yellow-bellied robin is always the first bird to wake in the mornings in the rainforests of northeastern Australia. Its singular call is soon echoed by a chorus of others--the screech of cat birds, the gunfire of Macleay's honeyeater and sometimes the eerie laugh of the kookaburra...
...That bird has got to be the only one on Earth with lips," said Meg in her soft Southern accent, breaking our own bleary silence amidst the din. The wompoo pigeon--named for its distinctive call--had just flown over our heads...
...academic material. His Diary of a Yankee-Hater, which is just that, was published in 1981. He is / now editing a book on Lawrence Park, the turn-of-the-century artists' colony in Bronxville, N.Y., where he grew up and lives today. Our renaissance lawyer is also an avid bird watcher, gardener, art buff and rock-'n'-roll aficionado: his raunchy rendition of Blue Christmas, Elvis-style, is the highlight of the law department's annual lunch...
...first time it has emerged from the red since 1985. Turner, meanwhile, has become an advocate for a range of liberal causes. In an industry in which executives are careful to keep political views to themselves (except perhaps for flag waving during Bicentennial celebrations), Turner is that rare bird: a TV chieftain with an outspoken conscience...