At the small east Auckland college, 550 pupils, staff and parents remembered the three boys, three girls and their teacher who were on the final day of an adventure holiday.
Hundreds of kilometres away in Tongariro National Park, 50 distraught staff of the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre returned to Mangatepopo Stream to pay their [...]
It was raining the day Tasha embarked with her best friend, Portia McPhail, and other Elim Christian College pupils for an adventure she was not exactly keen on, having had her share of thrills and spills.
Her father, Andy Bray, asked how she felt to be going canyoning in such weather on Tuesday. She said her [...]
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After rounding a headland on the Pencarrow shore, she stops to stare out at the jagged rocks being gently nudged by an incoming tide.
It was close to [...]
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After rounding a headland on the Pencarrow shore, she stops to stare out at the jagged rocks being gently nudged by an incoming tide.
It was close to here that she came ashore 40 years ago, after floating for 3%26frac12; hours in the [...]
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — A Russian capsule carrying two cosmonauts and Korea’s first astronaut blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Tuesday, en route to the international space station.
The Soyuz TMA-12 craft lifted off on time, roaring into the evening skies over Kazakhstan’s barren steppes before turning down range and entering its preliminary orbit about 10 minutes [...]
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — A Russian capsule carrying two cosmonauts and Korea’s first astronaut blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Tuesday, en route to the international space station.
The Soyuz TMA-12 craft lifted off on time, roaring into the evening skies over Kazakhstan’s barren steppes before turning down range and entering its preliminary orbit about 10 minutes [...]
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — A Russian capsule carrying two cosmonauts and Korea’s first astronaut blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Tuesday, en route to the international space station.
The Soyuz TMA-12 craft lifted off on time, roaring into the evening skies over Kazakhstan’s barren steppes before turning down range and entering its preliminary orbit about 10 minutes [...]
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — A Russian capsule carrying two cosmonauts and Korea’s first astronaut blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Tuesday, en route to the international space station.
The Soyuz TMA-12 craft lifted off on time, roaring into the evening skies over Kazakhstan’s barren steppes before turning down range and entering its preliminary orbit about 10 minutes [...]
JG. Ballard famously characterised himself as a weatherman:
“I read the sky and see the coming storms.” But, like Walter
Benjamin’s tragic “angel of history”, he has been forced to look
backwards at the cataclysmic storm behind him. For Ballard, that
storm is the Pacific War, the source of the questions with which he
has grappled so creatively all his [...]
War and Peace is like the trunk of one of Leo Tolstoy’s
beloved oaks, fed by invisible roots and producing numerous
branches that keep on spreading.
Among the hidden feeders were the fair copies produced by his
wife Sonya, who every night would transcribe her husband’s daily
scribblings; in the morning Tolstoy would seize on the pile of new
pages, cross [...]
