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By Achriel, on August 31st, 2003 In Florida, they swim with dolphins, in Norway with whales and in California they dive with sharks. Now, in B.C. you can swim with the seals.
NANAIMO, B.C. — Somewhere close, in this cold, cloudy water, lurk more than 200 harbour seals. They’re not on shore, they’re not bobbing in the water, they’re not . . . → Read More: Snorkeling with the seals in B.C.
By Achriel, on August 31st, 2003 by Michael McCullough
A shadowy ring of Vancouver-area spammers has been duping Internet users into giving them their credit card numbers and other personal information, a major American Internet service provider claims.
Atlanta-based Earthlink, Inc. filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Federal Court this week against unnamed and unknown participants in separate spam rings . . . → Read More: Shadowy B.C. spam ring faces Earthlink lawsuit
By Achriel, on August 31st, 2003 The passive resistance of Tibet’s Buddhists has caused China’s communist regime headaches, Hamish McDonald reports from Lhasa.
On benches topped with thick floral carpets, shaven-headed teenage boys in yellow woollen cloaks chant Buddhist sutras, led by abbots patrolling the aisles gesturing with bunches of smoking incense sticks.
When each psalm ends there is silence until . . . → Read More: Beijing bids for the heart of Tibet
By Achriel, on August 31st, 2003 Rising from the desert in one of the most remote places on earth is an 80-foot temple topped by the stylized figure of a man. It wasn’t here last week and it won’t be here after Saturday night-except for the pile of ashes expected from its ritual burning.
In one of the most bizarre . . . → Read More: Love in flames (The Burning Man)
By Achriel, on August 31st, 2003 On this, the final long weekend of summer, follow the saints and the saintly through the Townships, from the abbey of St. Benoît du Lac overlooking Lake Memphrémagog to the town of St. François-Xavier de Brompton near Sherbrooke
By Helga Loverseed
A while back, the holiday of St. Jean Baptiste got me thinking about its . . . → Read More: On the trail of the saints
By Achriel, on August 30th, 2003 This is a prayer in appreciation of water, supplied by Linda Kerby, the self-described hereditary witch from Leawood.
Water is all around us, inside us, and always a part of us.
It is the gift of Goddess that refreshes our bodies in streams and ponds that cleanses our bodies in showers and tubs that nourishes . . . → Read More: Prayer for rain
By Achriel, on August 30th, 2003 Dentists see gum loss where the unpierced rarely have problems, writes Frank D. Roylance.
By Frank D. Roylance.
People who jab studs through their lips and pierce their tongues are not usually eager to hear a lecture on gum disease.
But Dr. John K. Brooks tries anyway. He and two colleagues at the University . . . → Read More: Piercing can cost you your teeth, warn dentists
By Achriel, on August 30th, 2003 Plenty to see and do this Labour Day long weekend
Hiking may not be an option in many places in B.C., but there are lots of alternative events and activities planned for the long weekend.
In Tofino, the Tofino Lantern Festival takes place tonight at the Tofino Botanical Gardens. The annual event is sponsored by . . . → Read More: Fish, fests fillies, fun
By Achriel, on August 29th, 2003 The decision, deferred for a year, could mean chaos for the provincial forestry industry
By David Stonehouse
FREDERICTON — Natives in New Brunswick are hailing a court victory that grants them the inherent right to harvest wood on Crown lands, but the decision could mean chaos for the provincial forestry industry.
Thursday’s ruling throws . . . → Read More: Crown land logging OK’d for N.B. natives
By Achriel, on August 29th, 2003 Minneapolis (AP) An 18-year-old from Hopkins accused of spreading a damaging Internet infection weeks ago was arrested Friday and later released under restrictions set by a federal judge.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Richard Nelson told Jeffrey Lee Parson not to access the Internet or any other network connection and placed him on electronic monitoring.
. . . → Read More: Suspected ‘Blaster’ Is Busted
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