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  • Country diary Cotehele Tamar Valley Sid Coombe No 1 among this years thick and gorgeous apple blossoms

    Cotehele 's formal gardens from the old orchard. The apple is particularly thick and gorgeous this year. It obscures mistletoe, and clothes limbs that until a few weeks ago were bare apart from lichen and moss. Most spectacular is the luminous Sid Coombe No 1 - a spreading tree planted here 25 years ago. Genetic testing has proved this variety to be unique, so it goes by the name of the ...

  • Environmental First Nations activists protest at Sarnia oilsands meeting

    SARNIA, Ont. -- About 50 environmental and First Nations activists gathered to protest in Sarnia, Ont., as a two-day national conference on oil sands bitumen opened Tuesday. Carrying signs reading "People Not Profits" and "Solidarity Against The Tar Sands," they gathered to demonstrate their opposition to Alberta oil sands development and proposed pipelines. They held a ...

  • Joint Information Environment Serves Warfighters Official Says

    By Claudette RouloAmerican Forces Press Service FAIRFAX, Va., May 21, 2013 – The Joint Information Environment isn't a program, it's an end state, the Defense Department's deputy chief information officer for information enterprise said at an industry conference here today. The term "Joint Information Environment" simply describes the ability to deliver data to the ...

  • Environmental Working Groups top sunscreens for 2013

    The Environmental Working Group , a consumer organization, has released its annual report on sunscreens to come up with a list of recommendations for what people should slather on their skin this summer . The group analyzed hundreds of sunscreens currently on the market and gave them a score between 1 and 8, with "1" being considered a top pick. Read on to see examples of what the EWG ...

  • Shell suffers embarrassing shareholder rebellion over executive pay

    Peter Voser, chief executive of Shell, was awarded a 2.8m bonus after a year in which the company lost 1.05bn. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty ...


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Movie Review

Anna and the King

"Anna and the King" is visually beautiful, richly detailed, terribly long, and oddly unaffecting. One might even go so far as to say it's a little boring. For a movie that not only attempts to be a romance between people from difference worlds, but also an examination of an ancient culture moving into modernity, it barely registers as an emotional experience. Director Andy Tennant, who made the r ... ...

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  • Climate change will push up New Yorks heatwave deaths

    Radley Horton of Columbia University in New York and colleagues have now calculated the net effect. They matched daily temperature data for Manhattan with death rates between 1982 and 1999 to estimate how sensitive the city's population is to temperatures, then used future temperature forecasts to estimate future death rates. In all their 16 models, temperature-related deaths increased ...

  • Number of excellent quality UK beaches plummets

    The proportion of UK beaches classed as "excellent" for the quality of their bathing water has fallen to its lowest level since 2000, new figures show. The number plummeted from 82.8% in 2011 to 58.2% in 2012, according ...

  • Big-cat sightings is Britain suffering from mass hysteria

    In 1995, government inspectors spent months on Bodmin moor in Cornwall looking for evidence of a 'beast' roaming wild there. They found nothing. Yet every year there are 2,000 similarly spurious big-cat sightings in Britain. What's going ...

  • Oklahoma tornado followed by extreme weather warnings for four states

    More than 50 million people across a swathe of the Great Plains states were braced for a second round of extreme weather on Tuesday, from hail storms ...

  • Oklahoma Tornado Pictures 2-Mile Twister Destroys Town

    tornado roared through the suburbs of Oklahoma City on Monday, destroying entire neighborhoods and leveling an elementary school, according to the Associated Press. ...

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