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...Tennessee, August is the occasion of the Elvis International Tribute, a week in which 15,000 Presley fans convene to watch a competition among Elvis impersonators, to participate in an Elvis trivia contest and to pay homage. Crowds also flock to the Wild and Wacky Raft Race in Miami, the bathtub race in San Diego and the equally exciting Hermit Crab Races in Ocean City, N.J. In Illinois' state fair there is both a hog-calling and a husband-calling contest, in which a woman calls for her husband, who has been calling hogs. First prize was taken by Kathy...
...nightmares in which he was being chased by an assassin with his own face. The dreams finally drove him to seek out his past. He flew to Ghana, he says, "to find out what I was made of." Eshun chronicles his travels - visiting forts, braving the not-so-wild elephants of a national park - with humour and insight. The crux of the book is Eshun's discovery about his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. Joseph de Graft, a Dutch slave trader and an ancestor of Eshun's on his mother's side, settled in Ghana in the 1750s...
...Amazon lagoon and, unseen by her, the Gill Man miming her strokes a few feet below, like the hidden id ready to surface. In this eerie pas de deux, the creature's attentions are both predatory and appreciative. He could be her destroyer or her lover: Swamp Thing or Wild Thing...
Summer is the spritzing season, and this year more water than ever is flowing onto the market--for drinking, for fighting acne and even for jet-lag relief. Chantecaille's aromatherapy Flower Waters, far right, come in scents like Wild Blackberry Bush and Roman Chamomile. Shu Uemura's Foaming Cleansing Water, right, uses the brand's signature mineral-rich Depsea Water. And for old-fashioned types who still prefer to drink the stuff, Borba offers six calorie-free waters in flavors like pomegranate and litchi that treat skin problems from the inside out. But at $30 for 12 bottles, this...
...easy to culture wild microbes in the lab, but much can be learned by sequencing the genes contained in a sample of earth, air or water. Just this past April, scientists from the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a Department of Energy lab in Walnut Creek, Calif., announced in the journal Science that they had for the first time identified the unique mixes of microbes that thrive in different sorts of ecosystems. In farm soil, for example, there are any number of genes that produce substances that break down plant material--rotting genes, you might call them. In seawater, by contrast...