A whitewater rafting trip ended badly Sunday on the west branch of the Penobscot river, just north of Millinocket.
Cruz and four others were thrown from the raft while going through a rapid.
When Cruz was pulled back into the boat a short time later, he lost consciousness.
Wardens think Cruz may have experiened a medical problem.
He was [...]
Dr Albert Hofmann, who died last week, was the inventor of LSD. But he was not merely a chemist. He was a revolutionary.
Hofmann changed the way a whole generation looked at the world. This is the sort of statement that is customarily made about thinkers and scientists of the stature of, say, Marx or Einstein. [...]
‘I love to think about America,” Alfred Kazin, 26, recorded in his journal in February 1942. He was finishing his canonical study of modern American literature, “On Native Grounds,” written as he shuttled between his parents’ Brownsville tenement in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Jewish Brooklyn (Kazin drafted sections on the kitchen table) and [...]
To plan an upcoming hike in the Alps, John Higham scoured scores of photos plotted along his route on a digital map for clues to the steepness of trails and the availability of accommodations or camp sites.
These images were just like all the other vacation photos shared by travelers and amateur photographers, except they’d been [...]
To plan an upcoming hike in the Alps, John Higham scoured scores
of photos plotted along his route on a digital map for clues to the
steepness of trails and the availability of accommodations or camp
sites.
These images were just like all the other vacation photos shared
by travellers and amateur photographers, except they’d been tagged
with location information in [...]
WHEN Apple Pope tells fellow Americans he plays rugby league,
the most common response is: “Is that the game with the stick?”
“Most people wouldn’t have a clue, they always get it confused
with lacrosse,” said the 21-year-old biology student, who has been
training with Souths in Jacksonville and could get a run in their
match against Leeds this weekend [...]
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