Thursday 7/19 (Sag Harbor Express)
"Hot Peas 'N Butter" a world tour of percussive beats and bilingual lyrics for ages 3 to 8. 3 p.m. Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor offered as part of "KidStreet" series of programs for children. $12. 725-9500....more...Surfer's up, in dry dock (The Palm Beach Post)
Eight days after Harvey Cupaiuoli broke his leg in a serious motorcycle accident, he still looks like a surfer dude in board-shorts and Von Zipper sunglasses. But for now, his fastest ride at Stuart Beach is a manual wheelchair....more... Officials: Plane stowaway likely suffocated or froze to death (The San Francisco Examiner)
SAN FRANCISCO ( Map , News ) - A man who died while attempting to travel in the wheel well of a United Airlines jet from China likely fell victim to asphyxiation or hypothermia during the 11-hour flight, officials say....more... A body is found in China flight's nose gear, perhaps a stowaway (The San Francisco Examiner)
SAN FRANCISCO ( Map , News ) - A man found dead in the wheel well of a jet flying in from China on Thursday was likely the latest victim of a desperate and usually fatal method for attempting to immigrate illegally, aviation officials said....more... Loyalty points (The Australian)
JAMES Cook was a stickler for the venerable tradition of giving improbable, Anglophone names to South Pacific shores that bore scant resemblance to their northern hemisphere namesakes. In 1774, Cook proprietorially tagged New Caledonia and its Melanesian twin, the New Hebrides, to the mud-map of European nostalgia, then sailed on. For decades thereafter, in both archipelagos, the French and ......more... |