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Strange creature discovered deep in the heart of Borneo - previously unknown species of carnivore, or subspecies of civet cat. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,1660684,00.html http://www.panda.org/news_facts/newsroom/index.cfm?uNewsID=52960

What about the Cocteau Twins then? "What they are [pre-Four-Calendar Café lyrics], are words that I've taken from...maybe seen written down...in a language that I don't understand, and liking them...and maybe...making new words as well out of them. I mean I've got reams and reams of words that...

The young can be conservative too... ..and sometimes it's the flipside to that ability to "lock on" as mentioned above - focussing on something to the exclusion of everything else means just that - excluding other things, ruling out other options. Of course that's not necessarily a bad...

Ha ha - no need for apologies, DD, I thought I was coming in more or less from your side of the argument. Not that anyone on either of the side of the argument (such as it is, I don't think there's all that much disagreement hereabouts) needs to apologise btw. Neither Partha Dasgputa's nor J...

Why bother trying to quantify the economic value of the environment? Partha Dasupta in the LRB, reviewing a book about civilisations that didn't make it (Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond): http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n10/dasg01_.html "Are our dealings with...

Rock and Roll Rocker CHRIS CORNELL felt he was living out a comic book story when he toured with GUNS N' ROSES in 1992 because AXL ROSE was so bizarre. The AUDIOSLAVE star was the frontman for cult rockers SOUNDGARDEN when they joined Guns N' Roses for a crazy US tour, and his only memories of...

Cobbler's awls -- > balls This is from world wide words, interesting site. http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cob1.htm "The source is the phrase cobbler’s awl. An awl is an ancient pointed tool for making holes in things, the most characteristic tool of any leatherworker; it was an...

http://www.counterpunch.org/bradshaw09062005.html It's here as well, with this background on the reporters: "LARRY BRADSHAW and LORRIE BETH SLONSKY are emergency medical services (EMS) workers from San Francisco and contributors to Socialist Worker. They were attending an EMS conference in New...