National Audubon Society

Robert H. Hahn, a former Baltimorean, retired educator and noted bird-watcher who was responsible for counting the birds at the White House during the National Audubon Society's annual Christmas census, died of cancer Sunday at home in Reston, Va. He was 70.Mr. Hahn's passion for bird-watching began during his childhood in Irvington in Southwest Baltimore.In later years, the quiet, bearded, bespectacled man with a scholarly manner often could be found at Dorchester County's Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge or at Lake Roland in Baltimore County or in the back country of northwestern Maine, patiently setting up his telescope and waiting for a particular species of bird to appear.

New York -- If you contribute to a charity, you may have been solicited for a credit card in the charity's name. It's estimated that more than 200 charities raise money this way. Every time you use the card, the charity gets some small amount of money.But exactly how much money? There's the rub. Many of the JTC charities won't tell. They'd like to, they say, but the bank that issues the card won't let them."No good," says Bennett Weiner of the Philanthropic Advisory Service of the Council of Better Business Bureaus.