I always get a kick out of the asparagus grower along Quebec Highway 323 who, at this time of year, uses his mower to write the word “Asperges” in large, flowing letters in the grass on a hillside across from his farm.
It’s a cheap and novel way of advertising — and visible evidence of the [...]

Author Jane Cleland and author Jeff Stone will sign copies of their new books this weekend at the Mystery Company in Carmel.
On Saturday, at 2 p.m.; Jane K. Cleland visits to talk about and sign copies of her novels. Her series features antiques appraiser Josie Prescott; her new novel, is Antiques to Die For, fourth [...]

Valentino is a movie archivist at UCLA but his business card reads “film detective.” His job: tracking down prints of old Hollywood movies before they deteriorate and are lost forever.
As “Frames” opens, Valentino has just sunk all of his savings, and then some, into buying the decrepit Oracle Theater in the hope of restoring it [...]

MIT tissue engineers have successfully healed airway injuries in rabbits using a technique they believe could apply to the trachea and other parts of the human body.
The work, published in the advance online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of May 5, expands researchers’ understanding of the control of [...]

Mary Lou Friedman, a spunky 86-year-old with an ailing husband, is being threatened by hoodlums in her Cincinnati neighborhood, forcing her to fight for her family and home in Dorothy Weil’s latest novel, “A Good Woman” (ISBN 9781891386855, Plainview Press, 2008). Two thugs break into her home to steal her television and continually threaten her, [...]

Tourists to Europe will have to fork out more as currency fluctuations mean they will be visiting some of the world’s most expensive cities Novel Summary, researchers from Swiss bank UBS said.
A survey by economists at Swiss bank UBS lists Oslo, London and Copenhagen as the three most costly cities, while Dublin has crept ahead [...]

The glitzy Gulf emirate of Dubai, known for its futuristic skyscrapers and extravagant shopping malls, announced a plan to set up a museum to highlight the life and legacy of the Prophet Muhammad, media reports said this week.
Dubai Authority for Culture and Arts, established only last week to increase the emirate’s cultural profile, unveiled the [...]

Until a few years ago, Rosendal was just a dot on the map in the Free State. You could pick up a house in the centre of the village for under R10 000. How things have changed in this charming little Clarens-in-the-making!
It may still have only one tarred road but Rosendal, set against the backdrop [...]

There are three houseboats cruising the Chobe and Zambezi Rivers: the Ichobezi Mukwae, Ichobezi Moli and Nguni Voyager. These are luxurious, fully catered boats all offering the holiday of a lifetime.
They mainly cruise the game-rich river areas of the Chobe National Park, but also navigate the Kasai Channel and Zambezi River when fishing is [...]

Tibet shut the door to foreign tourists following China’s deadly crackdown on protesters opposed to Beijing’s half-century rule of the mountainous region, a booming tourism mecca last year.
Tour and hotel operators in China contacted by AFP said foreign visitors have left Tibet or have been barred from entering, while Chinese tanks and soldiers patrol the [...]