Daily Archives: November 29, 2006

Not in thy back yard…

An odd opportunity for development has cropped up here in the Town of Dunn, a rural island with a strict land use plan in an otherwise rapidly urbanizing county. The Federal Government has finally decided to close the Plum Island Animal Disease Center and replace it with an even more secure facility, the National Bio [...]

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The Esquimaux have a thousand words for sleet…

Oh the weather outside is sleety and I’m here with my sweety so no matter the icy blows (quelque chose, quelque chose, quelque chose) It turns out the Inuit don’t have a word for sleet. Well, perhaps they do. How would I know? They may also have a word for “frozen fish fed to husky [...]

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