10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2017

The Baltimore Ravens crushed my beloved New York Giants in Super Bowl XXXV (2001) to become football’s finest feathered franchise. In an astonishing 33 of 50 contests, an organization named for a meat (not cheese) packer, chieftain, cowpoke, steel worker, indigenous American, gold miner, U.S.

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Falcons Atlanta 2001 Game 109

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

A Baltimore Oriole peers out of her hanging basket nest at her mate, while a male Indigo Bunting sings from his cup-like nest balanced in the branches of a shrub. So, the Eastern Kingbird ”is one of the Tyrant Flycatchers, Tyrannidae –America’s largest bird family–365 different species.”

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Betty Crocker Birds 2008 2007 170

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Go vegan, go vegetarian, go humane or just eat less meat. Indeed, many paleoanthropologists maintain that the evolution of the large, energy-hungry human brains depended on a transition of our ancestors’ diets to include meat. Sandy Asirvatham Baltimore, Md., Jean Kazez Dallas, Nov. David Peters New York, Nov.

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New York Times New York Vegan Vegetarian 40