Residents are returning home Thursday after being forced to flee a wildfire raging outside Yosemite National Park, but some are wondering what they’ll find when they get there.
David Oppenheim, a longtime backcountry guide in Yosemite, has been staying at a motel since he and his wife evacuated their Mariposa home Saturday, taking along their two [...]
ICI Paints and The Home Depot will launch the first, truly comprehensive and environmentally friendly paint nationwide in April 2008. The Freshaire Choice? Paint offers exceptional quality, free of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and is backed by a lifetime guarantee and GREENGUARD certification. Featuring a custom color palette of 66 beautiful colors available through an [...]
%26bull; Clark to announce graffiti crackdown
Whats the best way to clampdown on tagging? Email your feedback to editorial@stuff.co.nz
The main problem with taggers, is their complete lack of respect for the people who own the property being tagged. How about, if you catch the little snots tagging, take a spray can to the things they hold [...]
Its actually a festival more than 1000 years old, for martyred Saint Valentine, which has somehow evolved into a modern celebration of love.
It%26lsquo;s true, some blokes act like martyrs when the day comes around, moaning about the pressure. They don %26lsquo;t know what to get. The worst of them, paralysed by fear, do absolutely nothing.
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Despite mating being a risky business for females %26ndash; not least with the threat of injury, sexually transmitted diseases and vulnerability to predators - polyandry (females taking multiple mates) is widespread in the animal kingdom.
Dr Stephen Cornell (Leeds) and Dr Tom Tregenza (Exeter) have shown that polyandry may have evolved as a survival technique [...]
It’s amazing what a little uptick in interest rates and a slow-moving housing market will do to consumer behavior. Back when rates were low, people couldn’t tap their equity fast enough. Now, with rates hovering around 8 percent and home sales dragging, borrowers are singing a different tune.
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LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ — Panasonic, the leading brand by which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (NYSE: MC) is best known, today highlighted the development of a LUMIX digital camera with wireless network connectivity, complete with integrated access to T-Mobile(R) HotSpot service and the ability to send photos directly to Picasa Web Albums(TM), a [...]
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and SAN DIEGO, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ — Starting today, the fashion-forward Venus(TM) by LG becomes available in pink, exclusively from Verizon Wireless, the company with the nation’s most reliable wireless voice and data network. The perfect gift for the fashionista this holiday season, the Venus’ sleek slider design now comes in [...]
BASKING RIDGE, NJ, and SAN DIEGO, CA — Sporting the same sturdy good looks and user-friendly features of the original LG VX8350, the LG VX8350R offers all of the services Verizon Wireless customers expect, wrapped in a glossy red finish. The LG VX8350R is available today at Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online at [...]
First Unlocked Treo 750 Smartphone Shipping with Windows Mobile 6, Available Today at Palm Retail and Online Stores
SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) today announced the Palm Treo 750 smartphone, previously available in the United States only on AT%26T’s 3G network, is now available in an unlocked version via Palm’s retail (http://www.palm.com/retail) and online stores (http://store.palm.com). [...]