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...always seen my life as interesting, but since I've retired, I've been able to do more of the interesting part," says Charlie Berger, a retired veterinarian who, upon moving to East Bettford, Vt., took two Alaskan wolves with him. In his spare time he volunteers to tend the dogs in sled races, such as the Iditarod that runs from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, and he leads adventure--natural history tours to remote areas of North America. This past November he went to Churchill, on the Hudson Bay in Canada, to take 14 souls to see polar bears. Last...
...young writer in May 1995 - the final month of his 14 years at the Elysée. The writer went on to put those words into the script of Le Promeneur du Champs de Mars (Walker on the Champs de Mars), director Robert Guédiguian's spare, focused film about Mitterrand's final years - in which the President dictates his memoirs and hones his legacy while wracked with the prostate cancer that will end his life...
surprising to me that Crichton, who was trained as an MD before he turned to writing science fiction, imagines that he has been able to develop in his spare time an understanding of climate science that is superior to that of the hundreds of full-time scientists working in the field,” McCarthy says. He notes that reports from the highly-regarded IPCC and the National Academy of Sciences “contradict Crichton's assertions on practically every point...
...those around him have difficulty seeing this because his behavior suggests that his brain is not. This description of the title character in Robert Shallcross’ new movie, Uncle Nino, actually captures a lot of what is wrong with this well-intentioned picture: it has heart to spare, but it frustrates because it lacks brains...
Hardly acknowledging the woman who has to swipe your card for a meal? Pushing into someone on an icy sidewalk without even so much as an apology? Not even making eye contact with the Spare Change guy while you tighten your grip on your...