The Place to Take a Humor Break
CONCORD, Mass. Ethel Farley has been a teacher in the schools here for over two decades, long enough to be able to spot a young girl with a broken heart halfway across a crowded lunch […]
When I was a boy my mother instilled in me a love of American history. George Washington was the Father of Our Country, she told me. Abraham Lincoln was the Great Emancipator. Ulysses S. Grant […]
MARTU LAND, Australia. There are more than 500 distinct aboriginal peoples in Australia, each with their own language and culture, and each with a traditional territory that is both their spiritual home and critical to […]
BOSTON. Lissette Neilen is busy handling a rush of last-minute male shoppers at La Boudoir, a nightgown and lingerie shop in this city’s tony Quincy Market shopping area, but she knows things will be even more […]
The demographic news from the east and the west could not be more different, and yet the potential consequences are similarly dire. China will have 24 million more men than women by the end of […]
HIDDEN HILLS, California. Miles Normandy, a seismologist at the University of California-Northridge, could be forgiven if he assumed that a sizable earth tremor felt here yesterday–4.9 on the Richter scale–was the beginning of the so-called […]
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea. The opening ceremony of the XXIIIrd Winter Olympics had just wound down here tonight when Szlxki “Red” Nvorkgz, a member of the Freedonian Scotch-Mixed Doubles Curling Team, bolted for an ATM kiosk […]
Male guppies prefer to associate with homelier counterparts when trying to attract females. Article by Clelia Gasparini and others, published by The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge “Whoa–is it you, or […]
MEDFORD, Mass. It was, football experts agree, a mental error on a par with failing to spike the ball with no time outs left. “Football isn’t just blocking and tackling,” says East Central Kansas Junior College coach […]
