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Best places to stay in Hawaii

editor — Sat, 29 Oct 2016 14:47:35 +0000

We were thrilled when the long-awaited second novel from HARPER LEE, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, published 56 years ago, hit the shelves six months ago. Have you read it yet? Go Set a Watchman (Random House) is the novel Lee, now 89, wrote before To Kill a Mockingbird. Set some 20 years later, it features the original heroine Scout (Jean Louise Finch) as a young woman who’s returning to the Southern town of Maycomb to visit her lawyer-father, Atticus. Lee, who famously shunned publicity, gave this explanation of the origins of her new book: In the mid-1950s, I

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Best winter vacations in US

editor — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 16:12:00 +0000

TETTEGOUCHE STATE PARK These are just a couple of the cases that demonstrate what has been happening around the world. While the cases of disappearing frogs may be natural (frog populations are naturally erratic), because so little is known about their ecology, scientists can only speculate about the causes. Unfortunately, most of them originate with humans. There are man-made chemicals in the environment that pass easily through the frogs’ skin. Their moist skin may also make them sensitive to increases in ultraviolet radiation coming through the earth’s thinning ozone layer. In the spring, melting snow packs may lead to sharp

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Best places to visit in Hawaii

editor — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:24:17 +0000

Hawaii is the one state in the Union where Caucasians, the Haoles, are a minority. Nearly two-thirds of the population of about one million are of Asian, Polynesian, or Pacific descent. The population is young, 50 percent under 28.3 years of age in 1977, and racially diversified, with 29 percent of the total being the product of mixed marriages. Everyone in Hawaii is a member of a minority. Hawaii’s ethnic groups are: Caucasian 26.2 percent; Japanese 25.2 percent; Filipino 9.7 percent; Hawaiian and part-Hawaiian 19.7 percent; Chinese 4.2 percent; Korean 1.1 percent; Negro 1.1 percent; Samoan 0.9 percent; Puerto Ricans

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