Oswald Bastable's Ranting (Free subscription) | yesterday
"The Parole Board chairman is urging halfway houses for sex offenders and inmates freed from long prison terms..." I agree. The Auckland Islands are about halfway to Antarctica.
JoshSpear.com (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
I’m a tripper. Invisible cracks in the sidewalk, errant candy wrappers, delicate leaves, you name it — I only recently stopped blaming the horrible conditions of the sidewalks in Sao Paulo for my clumsiness that oftentimes results in my arms flailing and legs akimbo; butt sometimes making contact with the cement. But when walking through one of the metro stations yesterday it wasn’t only me who almost...
Brookston Beer Bulletin (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Antarctica Brewery is Brazil’s fourth-largest beer brand, and is owned by InBev, picked up from AmBev when they merged with InterBrew. They brew half a dozen beers, of which the Pilsen is the most popular. The brewery was founded in 1885, and is located in São Paulo. Before I get grief from my wife — and [...]
Biodun Iginla's Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
by Biodun Iginla, BBC News, Paris 8:05 AM Wednesday (GMT/UTC/ZULU TIME) Primary Navigation Home U.S. Business World Entertainment Sports Tech Politics Elections Science Health Most Popular Secondary Navigation World Video Middle East Europe Latin America Africa Asia Canada Australia/Antarctica Kevin Sites Search: All News Yahoo! News Only News Photos Video/Audio Advanced BELGRADE, Serbia - Authorities...
TO411 Daily (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
The Toronto International Film Festival will go green in September with world premieres for Robert Kenner's "Food, Inc." and Dan Stone's "At the Edge of the World," a profile of Canadian eco-warrior Paul Watson's fight with Japanese whaling vessels in the Antarctica Sea. Of the 26 documentaries unveiled by Toronto programmers Tuesday, 14 hail from the U.S., underlining increasing equity financing and...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
A solitary chunk of granite, small enough to heft in one hand, is key evidence that Australia and parts of Antarctica were once attached to North America, a new study suggests.
rediff Movies (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
For all they know the next Cheetah Girls movie could be shot in the Antarctica but right now the platinum selling recording artists and actors Adrienne Bailon, Sabrina Bryan and Kiely Williams would love to return to India and dance on the streets, joining wedding parties and getting to know more about Bollywood. The three starred in The Cheetah Girls One World, shot entirely in India.
Science Pal (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Image from Tjeerd It is difficult to imagine what must have been going through the heads of Rio de Janeiro beachgoers in recent months as they have seen hundreds of baby penguins wash up onshore dead. At last count, more than 400 penguins, swept from the shores of Patagonia and Antarctica, have been found dead on Rio de Janeiro's beaches, reports the AP 's Michael Astor . Are pollution or overfishing...
The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Russian scientists said they've installed a network of weather stations in Antarctica to provide automatic weather updates....
Global Intellect (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Hundreds of baby penguins from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro’s tropical beaches. Original post by Associated Press
Get Mash (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro’s tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin experts said Friday. Read the full story
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
A lone granite boulder found against all odds high atop a glacier in Antarctica may provide additional key evidence to support a theory that parts of the southernmost continent once were connected to North America hundreds of millions of years ago. Writing in the July 11 edition of the journal Science, an international team of U.S. [...]
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
HUNDREDS of baby penguins, swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia, are tragically washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro's beaches.
OTB News (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro State in the past two months.
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin experts said Friday.
