Poem – Ballet Over The Border (By Donal Mahoney)

  Every summer they come, a ballet over the border, without papers, a mass migration of   ruby-throat hummers, beautiful birds that devour millions of flies in North America,   birds we welcome because we love their beauty and their ballet. We do everything to help them,   hanging and cleaning feeders of nectar to plump them up so they can feast on flies until October when   they have […]

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Inmate Starves To Death In Prison

Eddyville, Ky A prison doctor and two other staffers at the Kentucky State Penitentiary have been fired after a mentally disturbed inmate starved himself to death. James Kenneth Embry, 57, who had three years left on a nine-year drug sentence, was found dead in his cell in Eddyville in January. Embry started behaving erratically last spring when he stopped taking […]

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AIR TRAVEL

THE PROBLEM Flight delays, a large share of which are caused by weather, cost the U.S. economy $31 billion annually. Regulators have been slow to approve technology that could provide pilots access to weather data. THE INNOVATION Mobile technology can keep pilots abreast of the latest weather information and plan ways to avoid bad weather in advance, even if they’re […]

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