Chilly Buffalo winters are good for much more than freezing your pipes and leaving salt streaks on your windshield.
Thousands of Florida residents face the aftermath of hurricanes Frances and Ivan as they pick through the wreckage that was once their homes.News outlets scurry to cover what look like scenes from the end of the world.
Hundreds of people entered the First Presbyterian Church on Symphony Circle downtown Thursday, fanning themselves with their flyers to combat the sweltering heat, and packed into the balconies as if awaiting an Atticus Finch trial.Outside, candles were being distributed for a silent candlelight vigil to be held in remembrance of the 1,000 American soldiers killed in Iraq and the uncounted dead Iraqi civilians.The clergy in attendance sat and watched as the pews filled one by one and even the standing room in the aisles became impossibly crowded.
For many people, Ronald E. McNair is remembered for being one of seven people who perished in the 1986 explosion of the Challenger space shuttle.
A tall, leggy blonde wearing low-slung jeans, a sparkly halter and black heels swivels out of her barstool at Soho on Chippewa Street.
Social software has left the bounds of the World Wide Web and is headed for your cell phone.A company called Dodgeball has created a social networking program for mobile phones designed to help friends, and friends of friends, get together."When all of the dot-coms were failing, all of my friends were getting laid off and moving and we weren't hanging out as much as we used to," said Dennis Crowley, 28, a New York University graduate, one of Dodgeball's founders.They were using things like Citysearch, a basic city guide to coordinate their social gatherings, but weren't having much success."Citysearch was just a really lousy product, it still is a lousy product," he said.
If Agent Scully from "The X-Files" were a real person, she would probably work here in Amherst at the Center for Inquiry.The center, which houses the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), has offices in almost every country around the globe but their world headquarters is right across the street on Sweet Home Road.CSICOP, founded in part by ground-breaking astronomer Carl Sagan and prolific science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov, aims to promote scientific literacy by objectively investigating all types of paranormal and fringe-science claims.
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