A warning that the US housing slump was infecting the wider economy sent Wall Street plunging overnight, in a drop that was made more unnerving as it marked the 20th anniversary of the 1987 market crash.

Posted: 11:41:43 PM  

What's better than a meteor shower? A meteor shower inside the aurora borealis.
It could happen this weekend. A solar wind stream is buffeting Earth's magnetosphere and causing high-latitude geomagnetic storms.

Posted: 11:39:50 PM  

You have your brush,
you have your colors,
you paint paradise,
then in you go.

Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek Author, Poet and Playwright

inspirationpeak.com

Posted: 11:30:43 PM  

Integrity is telling myself the truth.

And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

Anonymous

Posted: 8:09:23 AM  

Shark-fins are among the most valuable things found in the sea: a fin of a basking shark, legally protected by Europe, can fetch as much as £7,000 in Asia, while the average shark-fin sells for about £175 per lb.
While "finning" - when the fins are cut off sharks with the body dumped back in the sea - has been banned in European waters, there is an alarming mismatch between the number of fins for sale and the number of sharks caught worldwide.
Some 73 million sharks are reported caught every year, but four times that number must be being killed judging by the amount of fins on the market,

Posted: 8:00:45 AM