NASA/Ames scientists map our return to the moon

"Thirty-nine years to the day after Neil Armstrong radioed "The Eagle has landed" from the Sea of Tranquility, NASA on Sunday turned its eyes toward the moon, gazing both forward and backward in time. For the next...

The Comedy of Wine: 'Bottle Shock' Movie Premiere in Napa Valley: July 26

No 'Divine Comedy' or 'Comedie Humaine' here! I don't intend to travel to Napa Valley for the Bottle Shock Movie Premiere. The only reason I know about it is an e-mail from Margie Tosch (Wine and Hospitality Network) who sent me An Offer to Win Tickets to the screening at a...

Faces of Bali - Goa Gajah

"Located in a steep valley just outside of Ubud near the town of Bedulu. Built at least 700 years ago, the cave was rediscovered in the 1920s and fully excavated 30 years later. Literally means ‘Elephant Cave”....

Faces of Bali - Gunung Kawi Tampaksiring

"An archaeological complex, one of the oldest religious places in Bali. It lies on gorge of Pakerisan River. To reach the complex visitors must walk about 600 metres from the parking area to the ticket counter than...

Gianyar - The Mother of Ubud

"Gianyar Regency is located at central Bali , with Ubud as one of the district in Gianyar regency became a famoust tourist destination in the world. Until the fourteen century Bali was ruled Bali by the Warmadewa...

California wildfires force more evacuations

Wildfires continue across Northern California. As of last night, the fires have spread across 900 acres as a result of the gusty winds. "Firefighters struggled to gain control of a series of wind-driven wildfires...

Flash flooding carries away houses in Belize

Flash floods caused havoc in Belize today, carrying away houses and raising the death toll from Central America's twin tropical storms to at least seven people."The remnants of Pacific Tropical Storm Alma swept over...

Chinese authorities prepare to drain swelling lake

Chinese authorities will drain the swelling lake formed by the earthquake earlier this month, and will complete work on a drainage channel to divert water that threatens hundreds of thousands downstream."Officials...

The Richest Man In The Valley

The Richest Man In The Valley A rich landowner named Carl often rode around his vast estate so he could congratulate himself on his great wealth.One day while riding around his estate on his favorite horse, he saw...

Floods wreak havoc across Chile

Five people have died and as many as 15,000 people have been made homeless due to the heavy rain and flooding in Chile.The weather has also shut down the world's largest copper mine located there."So far, five people...

Beichuan ruins to become museum and memorial

Beichuan, the most seriously damaged town in the Sichuan earthquake, will become a museum and memorial to the now 55,000 people that were killed in the disaster. The death toll is still rising however."The local...

South Korea to Build Robot Cities by 2013

If you find Sci-Fiction, and legends interesting, you will like this f\very much."The South Korean government plans to build two robot-themed parks close to Seoul—one in the bustling seaport of Incheon and another...

B.C.'s Emily Carr Art College to Become University

Granting ECIAD official university status is a good thing: now trust-funded starving artists can get Bachelor's and Master's degrees just like the rest of us. But this might not be a good thing from the perspective...

California's farm belt plan to cut air pollution criticized

California's farm belt has some of the highest levels of airborne dust, smoke and soot in the country."Environmentalists say a new plan to clean up the soot-laden air in California's farm belt would fail to...

Bill that would ban registered sex offenders as ice-cream truck vendors stalled

"An Inland lawmaker's bill to prohibit sex offenders from operating ice-cream trucks is in doubt after a contentious committee hearing Tuesday.The bill by Assemblyman Paul Cook, R-Yucca Valley, was inspired by the July 2007 discovery of a sex offender driving an ice-cream...

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