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On following the course of nature
MARTIAL TALK The Taoist philosophy of following the course of nature has been preached in countless martial arts training halls for countless of times. But if the instructor and the student really understood what If this philosophy should be applied to
Fleming portrayed a more human character in James Bond books
'The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul erosion produced by high gambling - a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension - becomes unbearable, and the senses awake and revolt from it. James Bond
Odd island out
Hiking through the forest along Puerto Rico's Tanama River, all eyes are on the slippery, narrow trail. The hillsides are steep and rocky and choked with ankle-grabbing vegetation - so much so that it's easy to imagine the trail becoming overgrown in
America's other frontier
Hiking through the forest along Puerto Rico's Tanama River, all eyes are on the slippery, narrow trail. The hillsides are steep and rocky and choked with ankle-grabbing vegetation so much so that it's easy to imagine the trail becoming overgrown in
Frozen Scandal
We remember, many of us, a different time. However cynically we look to our political past, it is there that we find our political Eden: Vietnam and its domestic denouement, Watergatethe climax of a different time of scandal that ended a war and brought
More Reline ?Firsts? for Lanes - 13/11/2008
Lanes for Drains, a market leader in sewer renovation techniques, notched up a double industry first by relining the foul water main suspended beneath the Conwy road bridge in North Wales. The sewer, which serves the historic castle town, was a
More Reline ?Firsts? for Lanes - 13/11/2008
Lanes for Drains, a market leader in sewer renovation techniques, notched up a double industry first by relining the foul water main suspended beneath the Conwy road bridge in North Wales. The sewer, which serves the historic castle town, was a
More Reline ?Firsts? for Lanes
Lanes for Drains, a market leader in sewer renovation techniques, notched up a double industry first by relining the foul water main suspended beneath the Conwy road bridge in North Wales. The sewer, which serves the historic castle town, was a
Group marks dedication that saved local lighthouse
By Chris Church/Independent Staff Writer NORTH KINGSTOWN - The late Shirley Silvia is almost singularly responsible for the revival of the 109-year-old Plum Beach Lighthouse that sits in the western part of Narragansett Bay, and the group she started
Madison County native builds observatory for star-gazing
On a recent cloudless October afternoon, Howard Sims eased himself into a chair inside the round white building that has become the setting for a young boy's dream come true. 'I was born and raised about 3 miles down (Georgia Highway) 172 over at Holly
Big 12 Football: Bats pile onto nightmare A&M season
Texas A&M has been incapable of stopping opposing offenses this season. On Saturday, the Sooners put up 66 points at Kyle Field. The Texas A&M football team isn?t the only thing stinking up Kyle Field this season. Sure, the Aggies have the
Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa
The animals in 'Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa' could only qualify as wild if the term pertained to their song-and-dance numbers, or their comedy pratfalls. The sequel's former residents of New York's Central Park Zoo such as Ben Stiller's preening, dancing
Grape expectations
For me, Stellenbosch's winter and spring hold all the charm - the persistent rain, the greenery, the waterblommetjie bredie, fireside chats with friends over a glass of Muratie Port, budding oak trees and kiddies splashing in the open stormwater drains
NESTING: The birds, the bees, the flowers and the trees
Sharon Letts/The Times-StandardArticle Launched: 11/06/2008 01:21:22 AM PST Some months back I penned a column about bees and their importance to, well, everything. This Saturday, the Humboldt Botanical Gardens Foundation is hosting a Speakers'
The KnowledgeFrom goats to goldfish: which clubs employ random animals?
FC Cologne mascot Hennes VIII. Photograph: Christof Koepsel/Bongarts/ 'Earlier this month, Rochdale brought in a falcon to deal with their pigeon problem at Spotland,' writes Connor Randall. 'Are they the first football club ever to employ an animal?'
Not just for Halloween
Wildlife rehabilitator works to gain new respect for bats I was 12 when I first started to read about and become interested in bats beyond the myths of blood sucking and vampires. As an awkward, nerdy sixth-grader, these outcasts of the mammal family
Bolder and Boulder
Cape Town's Boulders Beach, part of the Table Mountain National Park, is home to a much-photographed, much-loved and much-maligned colony of African penguins. Previously called Jackass penguins because their raucous cry resembles the sound of a tortured
Bolder and Boulder
Cape Town's Boulders Beach, part of the Table Mountain National Park, is home to a much-photographed, much-loved and much-maligned colony of African penguins. Previously called Jackass penguins because their raucous cry resembles the sound of a tortured
Bat colony holed up in underpass gets humanely evicted
perfect for a bike ride, and Barbara Hoffman of East Lake was approaching one of her favorite spots on the Pinellas Trail. She and her friends had come to the Alt. U.S. 19 underpass tunnel near Wall Springs Park several times to watch a large colony of
Shooting&fishing: Time for the grouse to scramble
I WENT THE OTHER DAY TO Novar, which is across the Cromarty Firth near Evanton and where over the years, but particularly during the last seven or so, they have developed a very nifty operation with the partridges, not to mention the duck, the woodcock
The secret life of vampire bats
(updated 3:00 am) Staff Writer GREENSBORO -- They hunt at night. And they're looking for blood. With a whispery swish of wings, the dark shadow swoops down, just outside your field of vision, then disappears into the night. These tiny fanged creatures
Vampire Bats And Other Blood-Sucking Creatures
· Bill Schutt, author of Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures, discusses the real 'vampires' in this Halloween-day edition of Science Friday. Excerpt: 'Dark Banquet' Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of
TRAVEL NEW MEXICO
Roswell: The Truth is Out There Captain's Log: Star Date 1947. The UFO faithful, and the UFO skeptical, disagree on most things, but, mostly agree that something did happen in 1947. What mysterious 'orb' gave way to the forces of gravity, causing it to
Another bat-free Halloween in Boulder
Front Range bats snooze through the holiday ÂFor the Camera ÂThe Museum of Natural History Âat the University of Colorado keeps an extensive collection of bats. In all, 18 species of bats can be found in Colorado, 11 of which live in Boulder
Resounding no to guano
Your urban correspondent Stuart Macdonald (Stench of Nimbyism, October 16) reveals a commonplace lack of understanding of conditions in the countryside and â?? remarkably, in the present political milieu â?? a naive trust in the efficacy of
Man-made penguin love nests for Bay
Guy Rogers ENVIRONMENT & TOURISM EDITOR MAN-MADE penguin nests, which are successfully replacing eroded penguin habitat in the Southern and Western Cape, and which could soon be introduced in Algoa Bay, have now revealed another benefit. Wilfred
UA to Host Summer Field Institute
UA?s Katherine Morrissey (right) speaking with Joe Orozco at the Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch, Elgin, Ariz., along with UA graduate student Neil Prendergast and Samuel Truett of the University of New Mexico. (Credit: Daniel Arreola) Students and
Go with the Floe
They say that braving the Drake Passage is the price you pay to see the Antarctic. They say it in the town of Ushuaia ( ), the embarkation port in Tierra del Fuego, before you leave--and everyone compares notes when they return. 'Some crossings are like
... nothing to be afraid of
By Alex BoroffFocus ReporterThey aren't blind. They aren't mice with wings. They won't fly into your hair. Not all of them have rabies. And they're actually your friends.Bats, one of nature's most maligned creatures (right up there with snakes, spiders
Best Bond film death
Die another way SHOCKING END: An assassin attempts to sneak up on Bond in the movie Goldfinger, but he spots the assailant approaching him from behind, reflected in the eyes of a beautiful girl. A fight ensues and continues into the bathroom where Bond