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...single day in 1994, volunteer bird watchers tallied nearly 3,770 bald eagles in the skies over Brackendale, British Columbia. Ever since then, this small Canadian town has rejoiced in the[an error occurred while processing this directive] title of "bald-eagle capital of the world." Why Brackendale, you might ask? The answer is to be found in the annual spawning of chum salmon, which turns the nearby Squamish River into a floating buffet that North America's iconic raptors find irresistible. Spawning season runs from mid-November to mid-February, and the best way to get close...
...Similar observations pile up - about the links between shopping and boredom, shopping and politics (the talk-show host acquires a political following). An incipient fascism sweeps the English motorways from one deracinated mall-town to another. If Kingdom Come has a flaw, it's dialogue that sounds like a lecture on social theory. To liven things up, Ballard marches his shoppers to the brink of armed apocalypse, and he displays an attention to detail that can lull you into suspending disbelief. Especially if you have traveled the new English landscape of soccer thugs, superstores and paved-over villages where...
...building; it's more like putting out fires." Perhaps the next generation will work out such tricky issues. Galja Burnakova, 29, taps the side of her head with her index finger. "The biggest problem is here," she says. She's an interior decorator who was born in the Siberian town of Abakan but has lived in Tallinn for a decade and speaks near-flawless Estonian. Like many Russian-born residents, she says she'd much rather live in Estonia than back in Russia. She's nibbling shrimp sandwiches in a hip private club called Noku with her friend Kertu Lukas...
...World War I combat. The film is based on the true stories of Americans who joined the Lafayette Escadrille in the French military to train as pilots, before America officially entered the World War I. It focuses on an endearing motley crew including a black professional boxer, a small town klutz, an aspiring hero, and a pudgy New England snob whose father thrusts him into the escadrille after he is expelled, coincidentally, from Harvard. Franco stars as Blaine Rawlings, a Texas farm boy who learns to overcome his idealism as he rockets to the top of the squadron, while fanning...
...EVEN FREE Taco Bell coud lure students to a "town hall meeting" last night at Princeton to discuss the school's most aggressive effort to counter the influence of eating clubs on campus, according to the Daily Princetonian. (Perhaps the eating clubs had something better than fast food on the menu.) The 15 students who did show up expressed concern that the four-year residential colleges, set to debut next year, will isolate students who choose—whether for financial or social reasons—to distance themselves from "The Street," as Princeton's eating clubs are collectively known...