Thai Spicy Fish McDippers, and other examples of fast-food you cant get in the United States Nov 11, 2009
How to eat porcupine livers, and more. Alternate histories, sea monsters, weird politics. (Harper's Magazine)
Deep-sea Ecosystems Affected By Climate Change Nov 4, 2009
The recent paper covers two time-series studies -- one at "Station M," about 220 kilometers off the Central California coast, and a second on the Porcupine Abyssal Plain, several hundred kilometers southwest of Ireland ... For example, at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain, the amount of organic material sinking from above can vary by almost an order of magnitude from one year to another ... Similar dramatic year-to-year changes were observed at Porcupine Abyssal Plain, where they were linked to... (Science Daily)
The lore of insects and allure of eateries Nov 1, 2009
Her attempt to track down both the genesis and truth of this assertion causes her to mention, among other phenomena, the supposed universal left-handedness of polar bears, the porcupine s ability to float, and the time it takes to hard boil an ostrich egg - until she finally arrives at the Victorian banker, politician, and natural historian, Sir John Lubbock. The great man plied 41 ants with strong drink and observed that their sober brethren seemed somewhat puzzled at finding their intoxicated... (Boston Globe)
Critic’s corner Oct 26, 2009
Raccoon eyes, porcupine heart. Lie to Me 9 p.m., Channel 25. (Boston Globe)
Now Angels will see if home is where wins are Oct 19, 2009
Still, fielding a baseball in those conditions must have been like trying to backhand a porcupine. "Now cold weather is no excuse," Hunter said. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Former diplomat denies Iraqi oil dealings influenced views Oct 15, 2009
On June 23, 2004, Galbraith and his son, Andrew, registered a Delaware partnership called Porcupine, which entered into a business arrangement with DNO, a Norwegian oil company, according to company documents and a statement recently circulated by Porcupine. Two days after Porcupine was established, the Kurdistan Regional Government signed a contract to develop Kurdistan s first oil field with DNO, ushering in a potential economic windfall for the semiautonomous region ... But the level of his... (Boston Globe)
Cheryl Miller: Settling the great porcupine debate Oct 8, 2009
I was pretty sure there are no porcupines where we live, and I told him so ... Have you ever seen a porcupine here, alive or dead ... If we were lucky, it would still be there, unless some other eagle-eyed driver spotted it and carried it off while we dined (porcupine quills being highly desirable, of course, for decorating wampum belts, moccasins and Carhart jackets). (Belmont Citizen Herald, MA)
Daily guide to television and radio Sep 15, 2009
9) Tim Easton drops by to perform songs of his new release Porcupine. Elgar 9 p.m. WCRB-FM (99. (Boston Globe)
Outdoors: Fishers are on the move Sep 13, 2009
He said he hadnt seen any fishers yet but ventured a guess that as more and more porcupines move further south and east, that the fishers will probably follow ... Fishers, while eating other animals including road kill and the gut piles of hunter killed deer, they are the only animals that consistently kill porcupines for food ... I told Wade Id seen porcupines on both sides of the North Mountain and thought that is why were seeing fishers in the valley to the West. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
Libertarians seek a place in the New Hampshire sun Jul 29, 2009
In this June 26, 2009 photo, Mike Parag, of Delaware, displays his tattoos that express his personal philosophy, at the Porcupine Freedom Festival 2009 in Lancester, N.H. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter). They ve come for the Porcupine Freedom Festival, four days of beer, burgers and bonfires. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Free State movement sees rising acceptance Jul 27, 2009
They've come for the Porcupine Freedom Festival, four days of beer, burgers and bonfires. But more importantly, they are here to carve out an enclave of less government and more liberty to do as they wish. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
Rich lessons in North Korea's playbook Jul 16, 2009
Pitted against the sole superpower was a suspect nuclear power which had completed a 20-year-long project to build a national porcupine fortress. Third, the Clinton administration followed a different approach by appeasing and bribing North Korea to gain time and bet on its collapse and ended up striking out the October 21, 1964, Geneva agreement. (Asia Times Online)
Financial collapse of luxury-resort owners Jun 21, 2009
(06-21) 04:00 PDT Rancho Mirage, Riverside County -- Nine days after declaring personal bankruptcy - again - a barefoot Edra Blixseth pads excitedly around Porcupine Creek, her 30,000-square-foot estate ... Porcupine Creek is lavish, with a 240-acre private golf course and a pool guarded by bronze lions ... Among examples of profligate spending Tim Blixseth cites in the filing is a $90,000 party that Edra Blixseth had at Porcupine Creek for more than 100 guests. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
Recipe for summertime bliss Jun 19, 2009
Toad Lake provides lakeside camping and a short cut-off trail to the PCT and gorgeous Porcupine Lake, but reaching it is a long drive in the forest and rough at the end. Lakes with easier drive-to access include Castle, Gumboot and Mumbo, all with campsites. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Steve McQueen in The Blob Movie (19... Jun 4, 2009
"It is truly providential that a new horror melodrama called The Blob is so woodenly presented on the whole. For a little astute showmanship applied to such a plot would have been enough to scare the quills off a porcupine," reported Howard Thompson of The New York Times (11/7/58). Film Analysis: Steve McQueen and the Cult of the Blob. (Suite101.com)
Monday profile: Anna Beth Culver: Retired educator keeps traveling, learning May 25, 2009
and ends in the Upper Peninsula s Porcupine Mountains. I do elder hostels because they are educational and safe. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
A 21st-century adventure on land of our first people May 24, 2009
A minute or two later we passed an agave plant, a spiney, waist-high shrub that resembles a porcupine at full alert. Somehow I managed to prick my right arm on one of the spines; turning to look at my wound, I drove another spine into my gut. (Boston Globe)
The Snake in the Flag May 16, 2009
Columns, funnies in your inbox. Townhall Daily Alert Your daily must-read of conservative columns, cartoons and news. (Townhall.com)
First Friend May 10, 2009
He also, in no particular order, broke his tail, right leg, and hip, and took a big bite out of a porcupine. He survived it all and died of old age. (Boston Globe)
For Abenaki descendants, an ancestral revival May 3, 2009
For tribe member Vera Longtoe Sheehan, 41, a graphic artist, that means tanning deer hides, decorating buckskin leggings with porcupine quills, finger-weaving quivers and sandals from strands of Indian hemp and dogbane, and daubing her own and her children's skin with ceremonial paint, not to scare off intruders, but "to bring the creator's attention to ourselves, and for spiritual protection.". Such survival skills began to vanish, as her cousin, Roger Sheehan, explains, "when the first... (Boston Globe)
Holland America Line Expands On-Board Culinary Enrichment Program to Offer More Than 60 Classes Apr 15, 2009
The "Let's Make..." classes incorporate dishes from breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks, while "Finger Foods" shows the finer art of making favorites like sweet potato oven fries and porcupine cookies. Teens also can attend adult culinary demonstrations. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Updike redux Apr 12, 2009
In one poem, Boston's Mass General Hospital becomes, in a single line, "Benign big blond machine beyond all price." In another poem, midtown Manhattan appears from a plane "bristling up like some coarse porcupine." Often the phrases show Updike's high-focus, oddball humor. Remembering William Shawn, the famous editor of the New Yorker, Updike describes him as "the magus in his cave." And he begins one of the hospital poems with this hosanna: "All praise be Valium in Jesus' name.". (Boston Globe)
Mirrors can remake, open up a room Apr 2, 2009
Horchow offers a hand-painted, wood-framed mirror designed by Janice Minor that looks like it's bristling with porcupine quills. And mirrors don't have to be hung. (AZCentral -- Home)
Philippe Starck star gets "real" and a film documents designs with long-term viability Mar 23, 2009
The Bouroullec brothers bicker, and describe themselves as animals a fox and porcupine. la La Fontaine's fables. (International Herald Tribune)
TV seeks tales for our times Mar 8, 2009
Since the show's premiere last fall, a huge, viscous slug slithered out of a guy's mouth and a man on a plane was spontaneously transformed into a sort-of giant porcupine. In a sequence that could serve as a handy metaphor for the recession, a crook was shown walking through a wall into a bank vault and then getting stuck in that same wall on the way out. (Boston Globe)
Recipes for success Mar 5, 2009
Whether it's porcupine meatballs with rice quills, frozen pineapple yogurt salad, deviled eggs made in a no-mess plastic baggie or frozen peas with water chestnuts, there's nothing the former home economics teacher from Ada, near Grand Rapids, cannot pack to go for the trip home - even the frozen salad, which she plops into muffin cups and suggests could also be speared for Popsicles ... House, who has been cooking for more than 60 years, said the moisture reacts with the rice to make it "pop"... (Dowagiac News, MI)
Snowshoes and s'mores; camping in the cold Feb 28, 2009
Night skiers and snowshoers in the Porcupine Mountains in Michigan warm up next to a fire ... Last month, my wife, Amy, my sons Anders and Henrik (age 1) and I dug our camping gear out of the garage and packed up the minivan for a weekend in Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park ... The Ojibwa Indians called this region Kaug Wudjoo, or place of the crouching porcupine, which the mountains resembled as the Ojibwa paddled by them on Lake Superior. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
Algae discovery may shed light on red tide outbreaks Feb 24, 2009
But today, the land around the 39-square mile reservoir is home to dozens of species including bear, moose, fox, deer, porcupine, fisher and bobcat. Eight rare species - including the Harpoon Clubtail dragonfly and the American bittern - are also found in the region. (Boston Globe)
