Boulder, Colo. -- Topics include: possibility that ancient Delphic oracle Pythia were breathing something other than ethylene; magma chamber recharge at Vesuvius prior to the A.D. 79 eruption; new insights into dynamics of sea-level change; the northern Adriatic Sea as modern laboratory for studying 450 million years of marine ecosystem evolution; and discovery of a southwestern Pacific region
Many of the changes mandated by the Base Realignment and Closure Commission for the 366th Fighter Wing at Mountain Home AFB last year will be happening much faster than expected, with one off the most important moves taking place between now and next spring, rather than 2009.
* An alphabetical listing of movies on TV the week of Sept. 24-Sept. 30. Absolution (2006) Samantha Mathis. A New York journalist returns to her small hometown to investigate claims of a comatose man who can miraculously heal people. (NR) 1 hr. 36 mins.
CHEYENNE - If you had a nickel for every theory on why gasoline prices are so high in Wyoming, you might actually be able to buy a gallon of gas. The price of fuel, tumbling elsewhere, remains stubbornly high in Wyoming - especially in Cheyenne - and the reason isn't clear.
Stuff John McEnroe, Howard Stern and Peter Lynch into a blender and hit the frappe button. The outcome may not look tasty, but it's likely to act a lot like Jim Cramer.
Satellite images acquired from Aug. 23 to 25 have shown for the first time dramatic openings -- over a geographic extent larger than the size of the British Isles -- in the Arctic's perennial sea ice pack north of Svalbard and extending into the Russian Arctic all the way to the North Pole.
The war between Israel and Lebanon claimed over 1,500 lives and displaced tens of thousands of Lebanese. However, the environmental damage caused by an oil spill in southern Lebanon that left 15,000 tons of oil in the Mediterranean Sea cannot be measured. One Alaska man suggests that Israel deliberately caused the oil spill and, consequently, committed a war crime.
On this budget trip, see Last Frontier through the window Heads are nodding, bodies are limp, soft snoring sounds are escaping from the throat of the man across the aisle from me. Later, he will describe this drive -- 11 hours on a bus -- as "the ride from hell." It's not. It's just infernally boring.