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...temperature averages below 50 degrees seven months of the year.Let’s just say Toronto isn’t your typical beach town.That, however, doesn’t seem to bother Kuld. He has spent his last five summers playing beach volleyball on the banks of Lake Ontario.Kuld, an outside hitter on the Harvard men’s volleyball team, started playing beach volleyball after his freshman year in high school.“A couple of my friends on my indoor club team were playing and one asked me if I wanted to play...
...earlier this month. She was 54. Bowen is remembered for the relentless energy that she brought to her passions for art conservation, gardening, and rock climbing. Bowen’s younger brother, Frederick W. Weston III, recounted spending the past Fourth of July with his sister at their family lake house in Maine, saying that as the rest of their family relaxed before the annual antique wooden boat parade, Bowen was busy planting a bush, “with her gardening shears and all, up until the moment the family boat pulled up to the dock.” Beyond...
...someone's daughter - but whose? All that's left of the young woman is 26 bones, some hair, a T-shirt and a necklace. This is the crime scene hunters came across one October day in 2000, west of Salt Lake City and not far from Interstate-80. This "Jane Doe" remains unidentified, but with a new hair analysis method, some pieces of this grim puzzle can be snapped into place...
...studying the variation in hydrogen and oxygen isotopes in hair and water in different parts of the United States, they are able to relate it to where a person lives. "From her hair we know that she spent the last two years of her life in the Salt Lake City area and the Intermountain West and that she moved every couple of months," says Salt Lake County Sheriff's Detective Todd Park, who works cold-case homicides...
Georgia is desperate - and Tennessee isn't the only neighbor it is poking. Last year Lake Lanier, Atlanta's primary water source, hit record lows and Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue took on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, demanding that the flow of water from the reservoir and the Chattahoochee River downstream to Florida and Alabama be restricted. The Corps politely disagreed and more recently a federal court ruled Georgia's access to Lake Lanier be curtailed...