NEWS ITEM (AP, more or less) — Recordings of the ivory-billed woodpecker’s distinctive calls have convinced doubting researchers that the large bird once thought extinct is still living in an Arkansas swamp, the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge. “We sent them some sounds this summer,” said John W. Fitzpatrick, director of the Cornell University
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Here’s how. At least it works for me. When old friends e-mail you with the latest scare, tell them — no, prove to them — they’re full of baloney. E-mail panics and their close cousins e-chain letters usually come from folks who live out of town. Why e-mail in town? Actually, a lot of my […]
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Brokeback Storm or Ice Mountain
“Brokeback Mountain.” A Brick review. It’s a winner. It’s for mature audiences, mature as in for grown-ups who realize sadness exists as does love and passion. Mature as in people who love “story” and love characters developed in “story.” What I haven’t seen, though, is a professional review saying this: “Brokeback Mountain would be a […]
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Sticks and stones department
Last paragraph of Court Briefs of a recent edition of the
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A 21st-century blog
This should start things off. Brick began in December 2003, part of
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Ready for my breakdown
Copyright 2006 Ben S. Pollock I’m ready for my nervous breakdown, Mr. DeMille Saturday, Jan. 29, 2006. Modern science, specifically that financed by pharmaceutical companies, continually comes up with new medicines, new cures or at least new treatments for symptoms. That’s why they whine about government or anything else that slows them down. Lives could […]