Least Tern divebomber, P6070005 Image by Anita363 The business end of an angry bird. It took exception to us approaching the roped-off bare beach area at Cape May Point (where they feed & roost with their fledglings, although there was no obvious fledgling in sight at the time). Guess the bird had different ideas about [...]

Good One Image by jpellgen The girl on the right was handing out advertisements and approaching passers-by to come to whatever bar/club/establishment she works for. You really can’t get away from this sort of thing, particularly at intersections. The most disturbing thing about Dotonbori are the sleezy dudes that try to convince young/attractive females to [...]

Envoy who may aim for W.House presses China on rights BEIJING (Reuters) – The U.S. ambassador to Beijing, who is sizing up a run for the White House, stood outside a Chinese court on Friday and criticised it for rejecting the appeal of an American jailed on industrial spying charges. Read more on The Star [...]

Envoy who may aim for White House presses China on rights BEIJING (Reuters) – The U.S. ambassador to Beijing, who is sizing up a run for the White House, stood outside a Chinese court on Friday and criticised it for rejecting the appeal of an American jailed on industrial spying charges. Read more on Reuters [...]

Teen births decline in state LOS ANGELES – When Erika Perez got pregnant at 16, she didn’t know what contraception meant or how tough it would be to raise a child as a teenager. Read more on Long Beach Press-Telegram Calif. Teen Birth Rate Drops To All-Time Low When Erika Perez got pregnant at 16, [...]

Ice Breakers in New Jersey Ice breakers in New Jersey. Read more on NBC New York Chemical Marketing bought by Danbury firm A fast-growing company in New Milford has joined forces with another firm striving to dive into the rapid small chemical order filling and shipping market. Read more on The Greater New Milford Spectrum [...]

Richard Thomas Is Timon of Athens for The Public Theater Starting Feb. 15 Timon of Athens, Shakespeare’s rarely produced morality tale about money’s ability to corrupt mankind, begins previews Feb. 15 at the Public Theater. Emmy Award-winning actor Richard Thomas stars in the LAB Shakespeare production. Read more on Playbill Let’s talk it over: Reviving [...]

AP News in Brief On Egypt’s first day in nearly 30 years without Hosni Mubarak as president, its new military rulers promised Saturday to abide by the peace treaty with Israel and eventually hand power to an elected government…. Read more on WXOW 19 La Crosse AP News in Brief On Egypt’s first day in [...]

Grammy Award-winner John Prine coming to Paramount April 2 ASHLAND — Grammy Award-winning songwriter John Prine will be returning to the historic Paramount Art Center stage, at 8 p.m. Saturday April 2. Read more on The Huntington Herald-Dispatch SHORT STORY – STEGOSAURUS Sometimes I wonder if life was just meant to be an adjacent string [...]

Untouched, Unspoiled Batanes Fundacion Pacita, a cultural landmark in Batanes. It was going to be a different year, I told myself. For starters, I would do away with the usual loud and head-cracking New Year revelry and stay where my husband and I could breathe clean air, fall asleep to the sound of crickets and [...]