Return to Cumberland Island

Source: Travel Blog

It was one of my favorite places in the world - A land of primordial maritime forests filled with palms and twisted live oaks, their gnarled boughs draped in thick curtains of Spanish moss; a mysterious island surrounded by tranquil salt marshe ...
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Your Village Called...

Source: The Epicurean Dealmaker

Villager: “Wor, she turned me into a newt!” Sir Bedevere: “A newt?” Villager: “I got better.” — Monty Python and the Holy Grail a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells lik ...
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Cream of Kiwi luxury out to woo rich

Source: Stuff.co.nz

BLANKET BAY: It is consistently voted one of the world's best lodges. Rich Chinese tourists are making a beeline for New Zealand's luxury lodges. Exclusive lodges such as Blanket Bay in Queenstown, where Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston honeymooned, an ...
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Hardcore, hard-wired: How the prevalence of porn is changing our everyday lives

Source: The Independent

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Source: Guardian Unlimited

The key things that determine performance are the quality of teaching and the quality of leadership. And the biggest challenges come from the changing nature of young people and the demands of new technology. These are real and genuine. But to ...
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Fuel poverty has prompted a revival of peat-cutting on Lewis

Source: The Scotsman

IT IS early one morning in May, the Hebridean sky huge and blue, and Norman Macleod and Peter Urpeth, two old pals from Lewis, are walking out on to the moor, tools slung over their shoulders, ready for anoth ...
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Health Notes

Source: Daily Mail - UK

Aspirin: the research behind the headlines Q: Should I take aspirin every day? It seems to have a lot of benefits but I gather there are risks. A: Research suggests that a daily low dose (75mg, or a quarter of the usual dose) of aspirin may help ...
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I went from the Royal Wedding to a prison cell in Los Angeles: Camilla's neice tells of terrifying ordeal at the hands of US justice - over minor driving offence

Source: Daily Mail - UK

Emma Parker Bowles was 'outraged' she had to spend a night in a U.S. jailPolice locked her up for a minor driving violation she had failed to attend court for I am lying on a hard bunk in a prison cell. There is a sinister ...
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Saturday showers temporarily halt HAFB air show; Gates open at 8 a.m. Sunday for open house and air show

Source: Deseret News

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