Confounding expectations (The Australian)
Queensland Art Gallery's emerging artists award charts evolving traditions...more...Kuettel prepared for Villeneuve track (Canada.com)
Arrival of some of the service trailers at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve got under way on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 for the upcoming 2007 NASCAR Busch Series race. Page Taylor, of South Carolina, sets the wiring for the scoring loop (or lap counter) into a groove cut into the track....more... Kuettel prepared for Villeneuve track (Canada.com)
MONTREAL - Pierre Kuettel's first concern, after ensuring he'd packed enough brakes, transmissions, gears and clean socks for this weekend's NAPA Auto Parts 200, was his name....more... From Wyoming to Montana on Foot (New York Times)
Matt lives out his ?Man vs. Wild? fantasies in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, a section of the Gallatin National Forest on the Wyoming-Montana border....more... Border patrol goes hi-tech (China Economic Net)
Dust flies up in a cloud along the highway of Mohan, the country's southernmost town on the Chinese-Laos border in Southwest China's Yunnan Province. Eleven armed, camouflaged border patrol soldiers have swung into action....more... Students dig Holcomb Valley (Big Bear Grizzly)
A group of college students are spending a month in Holcomb Valley as part of an archaeological field study at California State University, Dominguez Hills....more... Natalie Bartley: New software, Web sites offer maps that are detailed and customized (The Idaho Statesman)
Gone is the day of relying exclusively on topographical maps procured by trooping to an outdoor store. The maps that sometimes required three large sheets of paper to cover the area of travel, disintegrated in the rain and tore easily....more... Now-smaller Henshaw has a large history (San Diego Union-Tribune)
SANTA YSABEL, July 28 (UNION-TRIBUNE): Hard to say what impact the county's 10th Indian casino will have on Lake Henshaw Resort, a place that has survived droughts, poor management and huge fish die-offs over the years....more... $2M sale of Australian aboriginal painting sets record (CBC)
The sale of a work by Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri for $2 million US has set a record for the highest price ever paid for an Australian aboriginal work of art, according to Sotheby's....more... |