Octogenarian Finding Most Copper Makes China Biggest Customer in Americas
Octogenarian Finding Most Copper Makes China Biggest Customer in Americas
In the snake-infested jungle of southeastern Ecuador, the American explorer David Lowell found himself sliding over a waterfall and heard his head bounce off a rock “like a melon being hit by a hammer,” he says.
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Great Migrations
My thoughts about National Geographic’s epic new multi-part programme about some of the earth’s great animal migrations National Geographic’s new programme, ” Great Migrations ,” has brilliantly captured some scenes that are touching and utterly heart-wrenching. One such scene features a young wildebeest, Connochaetes taurinus , swimming to the shore of a river crossing that is part of its 1800 …
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Last call
THE FIRST THING I ever did to identify myself as a gay man – before coming out to a friend or relative, before putting a rainbow-flag pin on my jacket – was to walk into a gay bar. This was not so unusual in the early 1990s, when few gay men identified as such before they left high school. Some …
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