City Report: São Paulo

"With more than 20 million inhabitants, São Paulo has recently become one of the world’s first ‘hypercities’. In a constant state of transformation, the city has fostered an attitude of improvisation, resourcefulness and cultural cannibalism amongst its...

Shark Caught on Spanish Beach

"MADRID, Spain — Biologists caught a 7-foot-long shark that had become a tourist attraction by making daily incursions into knee-high water on a Spanish beach, wrestling it with their bare hands and dragging it...

Kamloops boy recovering from cougar mauling

"Kamloops boy recovering from cougar mauling Vancouver Sun Published: Thursday, August 02, 2007 A 12-year-old Kamloops boy is recovering in hospital this morning after he was badly mauled by a cougar a day earlier at a campground near Clinton. Police in Clinton say the boy...

Artifact: A Chilling Tale of Global Warming

From Reason Magazine (h/t FR)"The United Nations has ventured into children’s publishing with a scary story about a small boy who loses a dogsled race because of global warming. In November the odd little picture book cum policy brief, Tore and the Town on Thin Ice, made...

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