Walking Wonderlands Irish Times 12The Lake DistrictTossa de Mar castle on the Catalonia coast | SANDRA O'CONNELL | If your boots were made for walking we've got the holiday for you | 1. LAKE DISTRICT | Irish walking holiday specialist Footfalls has a four day hike around England's...
May's best music from across the MAP The Guardian | Listen to 34 new tracks from around the world, as chosen by the Guardian and other bloggers in the Music Alliance Pact Listen to the best music May has to offer … Music Alliance Pact | Click the play button to listen to individual songs, right cl...
Peru's Famed Hostage Raid Investigated The New York Times | LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvians traumatized by years of guerrilla violence cheered in 1997 when government troops raided the Japanese ambassador's residence to rescue hostages held for 126 days by leftist rebels. Connect With Us on Twitter | Foll...
Peru's famed hostage raid investigated The Miami Herald | LIMA, Peru -- Peruvians traumatized by years of guerrilla violence cheered in 1997 when government troops raided the Japanese ambassador's residence to rescue hostages held for 126 days by leftist rebels. | The dramatic rescue, begun with a blast i...
Cultures to celebrate unity at annual Folk Festival Pittsburgh Tribune Review | The old Disney song had the right idea: It is a small world, after all. | That is what organizers and fans say about the Pittsburgh Folk Festival, which, this weekend, brings together about three dozen cultures into literally a small world -- the M...
Adrian Wong solo show at Chinese Culture Center San Francisco Chronicle Hong Kong atmosphere at solo show | The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco is presenting the first solo exhibition in the Bay Area of the work of critically acclaimed American artist Adrian Wong, a Stanford grad who spits his time between Los An...
Here's how to travel 25,000 miles without a penny Springfield News-Sun | NEW YORK — Michael Wigge left Berlin without a penny and traveled 25,000 miles to Antarctica, hitchhiking, bartering and working his way by ship, plane, car and foot, from Europe to Canada and the U.S. and then through Latin America. | A seri...
Dead pelicans baffling scientists Independent online Lima - The carcasses of dead pelicans still litter the beaches of northern Peru, even as the last of nearly 900 dolphins are slowly being cleared away. | The mass die-offs have Peruvian scientists searching for a cause and environmentalists raising questions about the government's ability to protect the Pacific nation's marine life, among the world...
A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity The New York Times | Carson C. Chow deploys mathematics to solve the everyday problems of real life. As an investigator at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, he tries to figure out why 1 in 3 Americans are overweight. RSS Feed | Get Science News From The New York Times » Facebook | We spoke at the recent annual meeting of the Ameri...