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Bats need trees as maternity wards, to save us from bugs
The abandoned Durham Iron Mine in upper Bucks County once belonged to William Penn and, in 1999, it served as the winter hibernation home for up to 17,000 bats, after they had dined on nearly 12 tons of airborne bugs in warmer months. Nine years later,...
Tags: Forestry and Timber, Agriculture, Environmental Issues, Bucks County, Natural Resource Industry
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Concert review: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds at Chicago Theatre
“Look at me, I’m transforming,” Nick Cave sang Monday at the Chicago Theatre, his scarecrow arms swinging from the elbows. “I’m vibrating, I’m glowing, I’m flying. Look at me now.” With the big, black wave...
Tags: Caves and Caverns, Music, Higgs Boson Search, Entertainment, Arts and Culture
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'The Host': Alien neighbors drop in, and time seems to stop ★
"The Host" is for people who couldn't handle the whirlwind pace of events in the "Twilight" trilogy and who prefer a love triangle unafraid to redefine, for a new generation, the word "lollygag." It features several shots of Diane Kruger (as a capital-S...
Tags: Chandler Canterbury, Patty Duke, Saoirse Ronan, Andrew Niccol, In Time (movie)
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Emery needs to strengthen Bears offensive line
Greed is unattractive, but what kind of poker player walks away from the table when the dealer keeps throwing him hot cards? I got my wish when the Bears closed the book on Brian Urlacher's career here. As a bonus, Urlacher whined like a jilted...
Tags: Sports, Detroit Red Wings, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, National Hockey League, Jim Belushi
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'The Croods': Project's evolution unkind to animated cave dwellers ★★
It's "Ice Age" with humans and less ice. "The Croods" began life nearly a decade ago as "Crood Awakening," a collaboration of DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Studios, with a script co-written by John Cleese. Then Aardman, creators of the great Wallace...
Tags: Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone, Nicolas Cage, Cloris Leachman, PG Rated Movies
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'The Croods' review: Ice age, stone age, whatever
** (out of four) Do you want to see Emma Stone and Ryan Reynolds running around half-naked? Sorry, you'll have to settle for animated versions of the stars in “The Croods,” a 3-D family adventure that evidently exists to depict the invention...
Tags: Pixar Animation, Ryan Reynolds, Caves and Caverns, Emma Stone, Nicolas Cage
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Exhibit at Field Museum sheds light on Lascaux caves
“It's almost too beautiful,” said the first scientist to descend into the Lascaux caves, according to “Scenes From the Stone Age: The Cave Paintings of Lascaux,” an important and highly engaging new exhibit at the Field Museum....
Tags: Tour Operations Industry, Artists, Arts, Field Museum of Natural History, Culture
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SXSW 2013: Nick Cave talks about 'painful births' in songwriting
AUSTIN, Texas -- Nick Cave has written novels, movie scripts and a few dozen of the greatest songs of the last 30 years. Yet for him, it never gets any easier. The problem with finishing a song, Cave said Tuesday as a featured speaker at the 27th...
Tags: Caves and Caverns, Music, SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, Brazil, David Bowie
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Optical illusions
WASHINGTON -- The media love optics and no one understands this better than President Obama. Thus, he invited a gang of Republican senators to din-dins at the swank (and legendary) Jefferson Hotel, one of the city's more discreet (and expensive)...
Tags: Politics, Unemployment Benefits, Head Start, Caves and Caverns, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Hoping against hope, some frustrated residents still vote
Don and Prudy Schultz set out walking from their Van Nuys home at 9 a.m. Tuesday, on their way to cast votes they hope will bring changes they've been waiting on for years. "I think this is the most dysfunctional city I've known in my adult life,"...
Tags: Politics, Elections, Wendy Greuel, Chicago Elections, Heart Attack
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High school boys basketball: 'The Cave' is Indiana's oldest HS gym still in use
South Bend TribuneMISHAWAKA -- When the Class 4-A high school boys basketball sectional begins at Mishawaka High School Tuesday, probably most — if not all — of the players involved will take the venue for granted. The old-timers in Mishawaka, though, they...Tags: High Schools, Caves and Caverns, High School Sports, Schools
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Words of wisdom from a nun
Leonard PittsCHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Let's talk about the other speech. Yes, Bill Clinton delivered a 48-minute stemwinder to the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night that was so mesmerizing even Republicans praised it. But after the huzzahs for Clinton fade,...Tags: Politics, Mitt Romney, The Miami Herald, Bill Clinton, Culture
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