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'Girl with a Pearl Earring' targeted by climate activists
AFP, Published on 27/10/2022
» THE HAGUE - Climate activists glued themselves to Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" at a Dutch museum on Thursday in the latest stunt targeting famous artworks, but the painting was undamaged.
'Father Joe' still on a mission
Published on 15/10/2022
» The young priest, always something of a misfit, chose an unconventional spot to start his preschool: a former pigsty near a slaughterhouse in one of Bangkok’s poorest neighbourhoods.
Could Boris Johnson make a comeback?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 03/09/2022
» As a child, outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly said he wanted to be "King of the World". He ended up in a somewhat humbler role, was rejected by his own party's members of parliament for his mendacity, corruption and incompetence, and will hand over to his successor, Liz Truss, on Monday. But the Fat Lady still hasn't sung.
Avoiding snakes
Oped, Postbag, Published on 31/08/2022
» Re: "Snakes can do good", (PostBag, Aug 29).
Used-lot leases
News, Postbag, Published on 28/08/2022
» Re: "Landlords jittery over seizure risk," (BP, Aug 23).
'They're Just Going to Let Me Die?'
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 21/08/2022
» Madison Underwood was lying on the ultrasound table, nearly 19 weeks pregnant, when the doctor came in to say her abortion had been cancelled.
Big trouble in Little Loving County, Texas
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 14/08/2022
» In America's least populated county, the rusting ruins of houses, oil drilling operations and an old gas station interrupt the sun-blanched landscape. A hand-painted wooden sign still promises good food at "Chuck's Wagon" to drivers along State Road 302, though the proprietor died months ago and the wagon is gone.
Gifted James Lovelock was Darwin's heir
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/08/2022
» Jim Lovelock was a late bloomer. His first book, Gaia: a New Look at Life on Earth, was published in 1979 when he was already 60 years old. By the time he died last Thursday, on his 103rd birthday, he had written ten more books on Gaia, the hypothesis that has evolved into the key academic discipline of Earth System Science.
Teen refugees find new home
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 10/07/2022
» Every afternoon at a park outside a distinctively Stalinesque skyscraper in central Warsaw, scores of Ukrainian teenagers come together. They are young refugees, trying to cope.
Cuban missile crisis redux in Nicaragua?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/07/2022
» It was a piece of news so obscure and implausible that I missed it when it first surfaced last month. The news was that the Russians are going to put hypersonic nuclear missiles into Nicaragua and terrify the Americans into backing down over Ukraine. Or kill them all if they don't.