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...sleepy tropical island city of Malabo had hardly changed in years. The capital of Equatorial Guinea, a tiny West African nation of fewer than 500,000 people, consisted of little more than some moldering Spanish colonial buildings, a few palm-lined plazas and the tightly packed shanty towns which encircle most African settlements. Its one claim to fame was that novelist Frederick Forsyth lived there while he wrote his military thriller The Dogs of War. But over the past three years, Malabo has been transformed. Office buildings have shot up, hotels and banks have opened, and foreigners - once a novelty...
...this year's I.U.C.N. Red List of Threatened Species emerges one point of light: the Bavarian pine vole. Previously declared to be extinct, this humble rodent is in fact alive and well and living - not in Bavaria as you'd expect, but in Northern Tyrol. (The Lord Howe Island stick insect, last seen on its Australian island home in 1920, is the only other species to have been rediscovered after being classified as extinct.) The pine vole hadn't been spotted since 1962 but two years ago, a group of the rodents popped up across the border in Austria. Aside...
...married. An hour before she was due to fly out, her publicist hired a boat and captain. The fancy flowers and frocks from the premiere became bouquets and wedding dresses, and 20 km offshore, to the sounds of a porno flick being shot on a nearby island, Ramsay and her boyfriend, rock musician Rory Kinnear, said "I do." "I think the whole thing cost 20 quid," she says. "It felt like a Fellini film." It's no surprise that Ramsay's life takes surreal twists. So do the lives of the characters in her films. Morvern, which opens...
...offense has still been keyed by its running game, as redshirt freshman Anthony Riley and senior William Griffin have teamed for 848 yards on 173 carries, averaging a solid 4.9 yards per rush. Last week, the Huskies racked up a season-high 266 yards in steamrolling Rhode Island...
...Fitzpatrick completed 24 of 32 passes for 353 yards and three touchdowns in leading the Crimson to a dominating 52-23 win over Cornell, Northeastern’s Shawn Brady turned in a similarly spectacular performance, tossing five touchdowns in the Huskies’ 38-13 romp over Rhode Island...