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Don?t want to read everything below? Fair enough. In short, Primavera Sound ?07 featured sun, sea, and almost no sand at all. There was some grass, and concrete, and a number of stages. Bands and DJs performed on them, and DiS danced. Yes, yes we did. And we didn?t get sunburned....more...ECCENTRIC ENCLAVE Belltown neighborhood keeps you sleepless in Seattle because of its attractions (Inside Bay Area)
SEATTLE AWOMAN PUSHES a baby stroller while wearing impossibly high heels....more... Businesses hope arch is golden (Florida Today)
A new $255,000-plus entrance arch has been installed at the downtown Melbourne commercial district....more... Major Facelift Underway For Historic City Dock (Washington Post)
Annapolis broke ground yesterday on a $9 million project designed to renovate the city's main dock and provide a boost to a business district facing competition from a shopping development under construction just outside the city. ...more... Letters to the Editor (The Martha's Vineyard Times)
What started as a perfect fall day at the pumpkin festival at the wonderful Morning Glory Farm this past Saturday soon turned to a scary situation for me and my family. My husband, Kenny, is a type one diabetic, and he started having an insulin reaction due to low blood sugar....more... Belltown brings out Seattle's lively and eccentric side (Contra Costa Times)
SEATTLE -- A woman pushes a baby stroller while wearing impossibly high heels. Another young lady sports a tiara, in the middle of the afternoon. A guy pedals a bicycle uphill while smoking a cigarette....more... Norway's frozen Svalbard is home to a top-of-the-world seed bank (Los Angeles Times)
Should catastrophe strike the rest of the globe, a repository of plant varieties should be safe, tucked away in remote, northernmost Norway. High above the icy fjord, the vault is almost complete. Inside a frozen mountain not far from the North Pole, workers are building three concrete chambers to withstand global warming, floods and fires, wars and nuclear holocaust. ...more... The seed bank atop the world (Los Angeles Times)
Should catastrophe strike the rest of the globe, a repository of plant varieties should be safe, tucked away in remote, frozen Svalbard. High above the icy fjord, the vault is almost complete. Inside a frozen mountain not far from the North Pole, workers are building three concrete chambers to withstand global warming, floods and fires, wars and nuclear holocaust. ...more... by Maureen Miller (Bay Weekly)
Billowing white sails upon towering masts: Tall ships awaken the poet, artist or dreamer in each of us. Seeped in tradition, these behemoths call us like sirens to sail into the past....more... |