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The article focuses on Michael Stipe's journey to create his first solo album after the dissolution of R.E.M. Topics include Stipe's creative process, challenges, and interactions with other musicians like Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, and Matty Healy. The narrative explores Stipe's insecurities, the impact of his past success, and the complexities of his artistic evolution.

The article focuses on individuals who have chosen to send their remains, involving ashes and Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) into space as a unique form of afterlife. Topics include the motivations and experiences of these individuals, the history of space-related experiments involving students, and the broader cultural impact of space exploration and science fiction on people's perspectives about life and death.

The article discusses a unique and bizarre festival in a northern Italian town called Ivrea, it reports that people engage in a massive food fight using oranges as weapons, and it mentions that it is deeply rooted in local history and legend.

The article focuses on the importance of reflecting on the pandemic with intelligence and care. It recommends revisiting the New York City Covid-19 Oral History, Narrative and Memory Archive at Columbia University, which contains a wealth of individual experiences during the pandemic. It further explores why people may be hesitant to revisit these experiences and emphasizes the importance of taking the time to make sense of what happened.

The article reports that filmmaker Noah Baumbach started hurtling through Hollywood award season in late 2019 in tandem with his partner, Greta Gerwig. Topics include examines Baumbach 10th feature film, "Marriage Story" and Gerwig second, an adaptation of "Little Women" were both radiating with acclaim and the couple spent that December, January and February attending event after event.

The article reports that resemblance to ugly Spanish bullfighter taught me about the dilemma beneath every human face. Topics include flashes of the humor and pugnacity that have made squash's forceful personalities; and Sobhy, a Long Island native, has carried the hopes of American squash won the world junior championship in 2010.

The article discusses that the photographer Sohei Nishino travels to a new city to work, he will typically spend a month exploring the place on foot, ceaselessly taking pictures as he goes. It mentions that Nishino cuts up the resulting contact sheets and begins physically assembling those images into a tremendous panorama.

The article presents a personal narrative which explores author's experiences of parenting in pandemic and watching Baseball league in Spokane, Washington, U.S.

The article focuses on the wildfire in Paradise, California in 2018. Topics include Paradise's emergency operations coordinator, Jim Broshears, later described giving fire safety tutorials at elementary schools, back when he was the town's fire chief, teaching second and third graders that if there's fire at their bedroom door, they should go out the window, and vice versa.

The article discusses author and memory expert Harry Lorayne's challenging childhood, marked by emotional neglect and physical abuse, which drove him to develop memory techniques. Topics include Lorayne's mastery of memory, his television appearances showcasing name-recognition feats, and his dedication to teaching memory skills through books and educational materials.

The article profiles Paula Tupou Bloomfield Tahi, who was shot during an altercation with other teenagers on January 13, 2022 near his school in West Valley City, Utah. He was a voraciously social teenager, a cannonball of comic, kinetic energy. Since age 8, he played in a kind of Little League feeder program for Hunter High School in West Valley City.

The article discusses history of human origins in Gibraltar along with information on opening of the Gibraltar caves at the Gibraltar Museum in Gibraltar. It cites specific reference of Calvinist theologian Joachim Neander, historian Paige Madison and geologist William King. It also informs about several studies on human origins.

The article discusses the hardships faced by physician and speaker B.J. Miller who had lost his three limbs in an electric-current accident while he was trying to climb a commuter train for fun. It describes his quest towards changing the lives of mortal complication suffers. It reports his describing the case of a cancer patient named Randy Sloan who died due to the disease at the Zen Hospice hospital, where he describes his experiences with Sloan.

The article focuses on author Gavin Pretor-Pinney and his fascination for clouds, and presents photographs of clouds in different countries. Topics discussed include setting up an online website called Cloud Appreciation Society to defend clouds against negative reputation, taking a photograph of a rare natural phenomena regarding clouds by paralegal Jane Wiggins and pitching to meteorologists at the Royal Meteorological Society of Great Britain by Pretor-Pinney regarding clouds.

This article talks about two ex- convicts Carlos Cervantes and Roby who help prisoners get back on their feet from the day they get released. These two ex convicts seen the changes that need to be adapted once they are out of the prison and guide the other ex cons by picking them up from the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility which is located in San Diego.

The article focuses on the experience and photographs taken by photographer Giles Price from the magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal on April 25, 2015. It highlights avalanches on Mount Everest that were triggered by the earthquake as well as highlights the devastation caused by the incident. Photographs of the earthquake's aftermath across the city are provided.

The article discusses the raising of Angora rabbits and the National Angora Show which was held in a pole barn in Palmyra, New York. Topics mentioned include the passivity character of the rabbit and their coddling fur wool, the comment of purebred raisers on the mellow and distinct personalities, and the comment of photographer Andres Serrano that they are good subjects and professional which do not move much.

The article discusses the case of Pigeon King International owner Arlan Galbraith who was charged with fraud and violations of the bankruptcy act in Canada. It explores the investigation conducted against Galbraith who had taken nearly $42 million from farmers and walked away from obligations to buy back $356 million worth of their baby birds. It also notes the judgment imposed by a court in Ontario to Galbraith for his serious criminal conduct.

The article offers information on climate change. It discusses a map created by blogger Burrito Justice that shows the conversion of San Francisco into an archipelago as a result of rising sea levels. Effects of climate change on the world, including intensification of droughts, and reduction in fish populations are also examined.

The article discusses the travel of French Canadian hypnotherapist and a glassproducts importer Henry Jolicoeur to Hawaiian island of Lanai in the summer of 2012 when he read that 97% of the area was bought by Larry Ellison, founder of the multinational computer technology company Oracle. The locals in the area were asked by Jolicoeur regarding their feelings on the acquisition when he spent about three weeks in the island. The accomplishment aspired by Ellison for the area is also mentioned.

The article offers the author's insights on Jacques-André Istel, the founder of the town Felicity in California. Topics discussed include the construction of an array of triangular monuments between the bill and the pyramid, the development of the world the Official Center of the World, and the sly aesthetic of Istel. He mentions Istel's lead artist Gene Britton, retired private-school headmaster Don Gaebelein and his wife Norma Gaebelein.

The article focuses on Mike Foshee, an exterminator, who discovered that a type of ant called crazy ants are attracted to electricity. Topics include why the crazy ants seek electrical outlets for nesting, how crazy ants impact the populations of native insects, and how they entered the U.S. from South America.

The article discusses the computer animation program at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah, with a focus on the success of the short animated films produced by the students. Topics include the strict honor code of the university, which is owned and operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), the program's focus on producing uplifting films, and how Mormon values integrate into broader U.S. popular culture.

The article discusses the unexplained killing of monk seals in Hawaii as of May 2013, with information on the political controversy surrounding the protection of the endangered animals. Topics include the financial rewards offered for information on the deaths of several seals found on the island of Molokai, the frustrations caused by the monk seals for local industry and residents, and the efforts of ecological activists to reach a compromise.

The article describes how the international trade in recycled cell phones may benefit the poor, but questions how the industry will affect the environment. With three million tons of home electronic equipment thrown out in 2006, companies such as Belgium's Umicore SA have begun recycling the discarded materials. Thierry Van Kerckhoven, an Umicore manager, states that very little pollution results from the reclamation, but Greenpeace International's Martin Hojsik argues that fact.

The article discusses the mattress industry and the research that goes into providing a better night's sleep. The sleep business yields $20 billion a year, which includes sleep stores and spas which seek to cure sleep disorders like apnea and insomnia. The sleeping pill industry has prospered, and the stock price of companies such as Sleep Comfort Systems have risen.

The article reports on the environmental and social effects of bottled beverages. Evolving from a status symbol to a commonplace, bottled water is now starting to be demonized as unnecessarily wasteful. Bottle return laws were created in the 1970s to deal with this problem, but there are now new moves for stricter laws. The Bigger Better Bottle Bill campaign in New York is forcing the question of whether the consumer and producer are responsible for the mess created by packaging.

The article focuses on Peter Acworth and his fetish porn company Kink.com. The article outlines how the Web site got started and what it has grown into. Particular focus is given to how Acworth deal with the protest the company received at its filming location. The question of consent in pornography is addressed as well as the legal aspects of filming bondage or sadomasochism.

This article discusses the trend of purchasing designer hybrid dogs. The breeding of various designer dogs has become a trend that's swept across American culture throughout the 2000s. The author questions the authenticity of the new dog types, their overpriced values, and the future of hybrid canines. Featured dogs include Labradoodles, Puggles, Maltipoos, and Bagels.

The article offers a look at controlling pigeons, birds that cost the United States $1.1 billion a year in damage, without killing them. Bob Van Gelder, president of Birds Away/Pigeons Away, a pigeon-proofing company in Los Angeles, California, is quoted. The article also mentions The Argyle Civic Association, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and the Pigeon Control Advisory Service.

This article is a report on the re-engineering and packaging of food to appeal to a faster-paced style of life. The piece focuses on the activities of Crunch Pak, a company that processes apples, cuts them into slices, treats them with preservatives to increase their shelf life, and markets them as a snack food. The company sells its product in large quantities to Wal-Mart, Whole Foods and Earthbound Farm. Contemporary American attitudes toward food and eating are discussed.

The article focuses on ski jumping burning into the brains of generations of Americans as an image of a man not ski jumping. Topics discussed include Slovenian Vinko Bogataj shot down the hill in a crouch with footage of his crash incorporated into the sequence of ABC's ‘‘Wide World of Sports," America won medal in ski jumping at the Olympics exactly once at first modern Games, in 1924, and views of Alan Alborn, a former Olympian, on whole sport as really unnatural and uncomfortable.

The article profiles sociologist Enrico Quarantelli, who had a penchant for noticing everything but accepting nothing. Topics discussed include his educational and work background, his establishment of the Disaster Research Center with two colleagues to document who did what and why during disasters incidents, and their general findings that natural disasters democratize social life in communities. Also noted is Quarantelli's elucidation on the ordinariness of goodness.

The article focuses on Pedals the bear, who rose to fame in the summer of 2014. It offers an overview of the disabilities of Pedals and how he compensated by learning to walk upright. It reports the online petition of two New Jersey locals asking the State Department of Environmental Protection to capture Pedals and transport him to an orphaned wildlife center in New York. The issue about keeping Pedals in the wild and be hunted is discussed.

The article discusses about the author's fondness for egg shakers, hand percussion instruments and argues that playing them is a way to release pent up tensions like playing the air guitar. He cites the example of songs from the music album ‘‘Live at the Academy of Music 1971'' by The Band to be his favourite play along record and mentions the song “Stage Fright" among others from the album. He goes on to further describe his egg shaker playing experiences.

The article offers travel tips for the U.S. and includes information on several destinations including the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, the Great Loop, and the Sequoia National Park.

Loggerhead nesting season started this year, as usual, in May. Across the northeastern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, female sea turtles began plodding out of the water and up the beach, each burying a clutch of a hundred or more leathery eggs beneath the sand. The eggs incubate for about 60 days. Then a throng of tiny black loggerhead hatchlings, each only about two inches long, frantically boils out of the ground, all paddling clumsily with their outsize, winglike flippers. They scuttle down the beach en masse, capitalizing on a one-time frenzy of energy to rush into the water and push past the breakers into offshore currents. Once they make it there -- if they make it there -- they typically find their way onto mats of seaweed called sargassum. The hatchlings will drift passively around the ocean on this sargassum for the first several years of their lives, like children inner-tubing in a swimming pool. It's a life raft from which, conveniently, they can also pluck snacks. Many turtles wind up gliding around the Florida peninsula and floating as far out as the Azores during a developmental stage biologists call ''the lost years.'' The hatchlings from this season's first nests, however, were on schedule to scramble into the Gulf of Mexico only a few months after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig, at what looked to be the height of one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in history. By June, the sargassum in that part of the gulf was heavily oiled. Soon, it appeared to be largely gone: incinerated in controlled burns, maybe, or hauled up by skimmer boats. And so state and federal wildlife agencies came up with a radical plan. Sea-turtle eggs laid on beaches in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle would be dug up during their very last days of incubation, packed into Styrofoam coolers and shipped to a climate-controlled warehouse at the Kennedy Space Center on the opposite coast of Florida. There, after hatching, the baby turtles would be released into the oil-free Atlantic. When I arrived in Alabama in late July, tens of thousands of turtle eggs, from hundreds of nests, were already in the process of being relocated -- all during a point in their development when even a slight jolt to the egg could be lethal. In short, America was orchestrating the migration of an entire generation of sea turtles, slow and steady, overland, in a specially outfitted FedEx truck. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Laysan albatross is a downy seabird with a seven-foot wingspan and a notched, pale yellow beak. Every November, a small colony of albatrosses assembles at a place called Kaena Point, overlooking the Pacific at the foot of a volcanic range, on the northwestern tip of Oahu, Hawaii. Each bird has spent the past six months in solitude, ranging over open water as far north as Alaska, and has come back to the breeding ground to reunite with its mate. Albatrosses can live to be 60 or 70 years old and typically mate with the same bird every year, for life. Their ''divorce rate,'' as biologists term it, is among the lowest of any bird. When I visited Kaena Point in November, the first birds were just returning, and they spent a lot of their time gliding and jackknifing in the wind a few feet overhead or plopped like cushions in the sand. There are about 120 breeding albatrosses in the colony, and gradually, each will arrive and feel out the crowd for the one other particular albatross it has been waiting to have sex with again. At any given moment in the days before Thanksgiving, some birds may be just turning up while others sit there killing time. It feels like an airport baggage-claim area. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Umpire was built in 1941 by George and Glenn McElroy, the Ohio brothers considered to be the Stradivariuses of ventriloquist dummies. The figure stands six feet tall and was meant to work the plate at a girls' softball game. (Remote-controlled sewing-machine motors raise each arm to call balls and strikes.) But the Umpire never ended up being used. He'd been packed in plastic in a garage and then a basement for five decades -- chipped in places and blighted by mold -- by the time the stand-up comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham got him last spring. Dunham, who builds the dummies he uses and restores antique ones as a hobby, went to work. He was finishing the job one night last July, gluing on a new, male-patterned ring of hair and comically bushy eyebrows. Dunham is 47, with feathery brown hair and a habit of curling his mouth into an overbite when he finds something hilarious. He beams with regular-guyness. Recently, Forbes listed him as the third-highest-earning comedian in America, after Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock, both of whom make their piles largely on television syndication and film royalties. Dunham has neither; his first series, ''The Jeff Dunham Show,'' had its premiere on Comedy Central on Oct. 22. Instead, he has toured relentlessly for 25 years. In the past year, he has played 150 shows and grossed $38 million in ticket sales, far more than any other comic. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]