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Ecotravel (Green Travel): Back to Nature and Ready for Guests in the Great Plains
Back to Nature and Ready for Guests in the Great Plains Dan Koeck for The New York Times http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/travel/08journeys.html?th&emc=th By JOSHUA KURLANTZICK Published: June 8, 2008 OVER the past decade, as human populations on the Great Plains have thinned, many conservationists have seen an opportunity unparalleled since the frontier days of the 19th century brought towns to the region. Outdoors people, big landowners, travel operators and conservationists are now returning much of the Great Plains to its wild state, to a kind of American steppe. Conservationists are reviving native fauna and flora, and wolf populations are returning to the Yellowstone area.Full-Figured Statuette, 35,000 Years Old, Provides New Clues to How Art Evolved
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/science/14venus.html?_r=1&ref=science Full-Figured Statuette, 35,000 Years Old, Provides New Clues to How Art Evolved No one would mistake the Stone Age ivory carving for a Venus de Milo. The voluptuous woman depicted is, to say the least, earthier, with huge, projecting breasts and sexually explicit genitals. H.JOHN STOSSEL GIVES HIS TAKE ON TOUGH SUBJECTS, ON “YOU CAN’T EVEN TALK ABOUT IT,” FRIDAY, MAY 8 ON “20/20″
JOHN STOSSEL GIVES HIS TAKE ON TOUGH SUBJECTS, ON “YOU CAN’T EVEN TALK ABOUT IT,” FRIDAY, MAY 8 ON “20/20″ May 7, 2009 by J!-ENT From pregnancy discrimination laws to doing less for senior citizens, from farming endangered animals to letting athletes do steroids, John Stossel brings us his take on tough subjects in an hour-long report, “You Can’t Even Talk About It,” airing on “20/20,” FRIDAY, MAY 8 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. Reports include: America Needs to Do Less for Its Senior Citizens: Stossel reports when Medicare was created, senior citizens did not live as long, and medicine offered fewer wonderful but expensive treatments. Now Medicare is headed towards bankruptcy.In keeping with my eclectic taste (no pun intended): The other dark meat
The other dark meat: Raccoon is making it to the table By Lee Hill Kavanaugh | Kansas City Star He rolls into the parking lot of Leon's Thriftway in an old, maroon Impala with a trunk full of frozen meat. Raccoon — the other dark meat. In five minutes, Montrose, Mo., trapper Larry Brownsberger is sold out in the lot at 39th Street and Kensington Avenue.Kristin Kreuk is Chun-Li
Smallville star Kristin Kreuk, aka Lana Lang, has been cast in the upcoming live-action film Street Fighter movie as Chun-Li
According to Comingsoon.net, Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li starts filming in Thailand in March 2008.
LatinoReview got their paws on an early version of the script. Here are some spoiler-rific bits:
– The new flick centers on one character: Chun-Li.
Val Kilmer Considering New Mexico Governor Run?
He is voice of the car Kitt in the new Knight Rider series, but could Val Kilmer's next role be the voice of New Mexico? Former presidential candidate and current New Mexico governor Bill Richardson has been fueling speculation that the Batman Forever star may replace him as governor of the 47th state in 2010. "I like the idea," Richardson told reporters on Thursday.CD Review: Go Jimmy Go: Girl with the Fishbowl Eyes
Go Jimmy Go, hailing from Hawaii bring "The Island Sound Heard World 'Round".
Their latest release off of the small Moon Room Records is like a warm summer breeze coming off the pacific while you are chill-axin in your hammock, sippin on a Mai Ti.
Feed this Hunger, Open the Door, Till you Get There and Why you Cry are a perfect blend of Reggae and ska while other tracks like Don't be So Cruel (one of my personal favorites) show lead singer Bison's soul influences.
Human Journey
Source: National Geographic magazine - March 2006
http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0603/feature2/index.html
Genetic trails left by our ancestors are leading scientists back across time in an epic discovery of human migration.
Everybody loves a good story, and when it's finished, this will be the greatest one ever told. It begins in Africa with a group of hunter-gatherers, perhaps just a few hundred strong.
Working replica of Noah's Ark opens in the Netherlands
Taken from Aol.com: Working Replica of Noah's Ark Opens By TOBY STERLING AP SCHAGEN, Netherlands (April 28) - The massive central door in the side of Noah's Ark was thrown open Saturday - you could say it was the first time in 4,000 years - drawing a crowd of curious pilgrims and townsfolk to behold the wonder. (A contractor by trade, Dutchman Johan Huibers spent two years building a functioning replica of Noah's Ark from cedar and pine. He used the Bible as his guide.) Of course, it's only a replica of the biblical Ark, built by Dutch creationist Johan Huibers as a testament to his faith in the literal truth of the Bible.
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