My wife, Pam, and I had set out for this place - the far western tip of Tasmania - with a sense of adventure, an occasionally misread road map, and a wild hair I'd brought from halfway across the globe. One minute we were looking at sheep grazing on gentle hills, and the next we were passing a vast plain of rusty-brown button grass. From Argentina, the currents sweep unimpeded more than halfway around the planet before they hit this point. The road was in great shape, as were all of the...

And when those ideas do surface, I get the usual condescending browbeating bums rush from the left as if how dare I disagree with the all-knowing liberal left. Nothing impresses me less than condescending, uppity liberal reprobates wallowing in hypocritical blame-shifting while looking down their noses at anyone who dares to disagree with them, when in fact most liberals wouldn't know the truth about much of anything if it fell on them. Nothing impresses me less than condescending, uppity...

This action will open the way for food producers to use copies of genetically superior animals to make bigger, stronger herds and, perhaps, tastier products. Nine months ago, scientists at Walton's closely held ViaGen inc. extracted genetic information from customers' prized cattle and transferred the DNA into bovine eggs to make embryos. Now, 75 miles away at the 300-acre Hillman Ranch in the town of Cameron, surrogate mother cows, carrying the embryos, are giving birth to calves that are...

But at the nursery school at Temple Emanuel of the South Hills today, 91 children in the 4-year-old classes and kindergarten transition classes will get a bite-sized sample of the meal. Sometimes, the Seders can seem as long as the Exodus, especially if older family members do not take kids' short attention spans into account. The lessons are age-appropriate, so they did not discuss marking the doorposts of Jewish homes with lamb's blood or the edicts for the first-born sons to be killed....

The financial services industry capitalized on this discontent by promoting a picture of vacation bliss in retirement for those who were smart enough to buy their products while they were still young. Now, in the Information Age, when life expectancies are much higher, we are still living with this artificial marker when life is supposed to become an extended playday everyday. Unfortunately, when Social Security benefits were enacted, no one lived much beyond the age of eligibility, which...

by Sherrie Norris Livestock has always played a key role in the lives of Watauga County farmers, and while some may think it s been put out to pasture in these parts, a new generation is taking the reins with the formation of the Watauga 4-H Livestock Club. by Sherrie Norris Livestock has always played a key role in the lives of Watauga County farmers, and while some may think it s been put out to pasture in these parts, a new generation is taking the reins with the formation of the...