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...underground," describes Lin. "You basically walk around and you see old walls and foundations and pipe systems of Old Montreal...
...Leonardo's day, water was regarded as one of the four basic elements (along with earth, air and fire). He saw it as a major shaper of the earth, circulating in underground caverns and emerging as geysers and mountain springs, and infusing all of life--an idea he often incorporated in his art by painting curls of hair as if they were twirls of a whirlpool. In a premonition of the Gaia hypothesis, which compares the planet to a living organism, he writes poetically, "We may say that the earth has a spirit of growth, and that its flesh...
...refused to bail him out. "That's when I started realizing: my God, people are really happy that I'm in jail," says the actor. "I get it now." Downey also says he started taking drugs before he was eight, with his parents and their friends. (His father is underground filmmaker Robert Downey Sr.) "It was as casual as it would be having white wine with Thanksgiving, at least in my household...
...photographer Sebastian Guinness say they have located the gold-digging ants on Pakistan's Dansar plain near the tense 1949 cease-fire line with India. The "ants," it turns out, are actually marmots, cat-size rodents that burrow in a gold-bearing stratum of sandy soil a few feet underground. Peissel believes Herodotus' confusion came from the ancient Persian word for marmot, which means mountain...
...heart of rush hour in a French subway station Tuesday evening, killing at least two people and injuring 80 others. Seven of those wounded are said to be in "very serious" condition. According to state-run France Info radio, the blast occurred at 6:05 p.m. at the underground Port-Royal station, which serves the RER regional line. French Prime Minister Alain Juppe, who arrived on the scene soon after the blast, said no one has yet claimed responsibility, but suspicion immediately fell upon Algerian militants who had claimed responsibility for a string of similar bombings in 1995. Initial reports...