There was no immediate confirmation of the identities of the victims but a local radio said they included members of the Togolese football federation who had earlier attended an African Nations Cup qualifying game played in Freetown. Witnesses said the Russian-made Mi-8 helicopter crashed in front of the VIP section of the airport terminal and burst into flames. Togolese sports officials had apparently chartered the helicopter to catch their flight back to Togo. Other diplomats said they...

Advertisement Buy a link here It was probably a shocker, because Kid Logic assumes that all teachers spend their free time sharpening pencils, redoing bulletin boards and eating apples. Later this summer she'll fly to Africa, where she'll educate children and help scientists collect genetic information from and care for cheetahs that have been trapped or injured. The details: Schmidt first heads to Eleuthera, an island in the Bahamas, where she'll spend three to four hours a day snorkeling...

Most visitors prefer June, July and August, when the coast bustles with couples and families looking to soak up the sun and dip their toes in the chilly water. And all are connected by their expansive beaches and rugged hillsides, some that stretch into the ocean and produce intriguing tide pools or jagged rock formations. Which town to visit? That's the beauty of a trip in off-peak season: You can drive the scenic highway and stop wherever you please. Seaside, a few miles south, has a...

We'll leave it to others to teach you how to shore up your roof and suggest how much water to stockpile, and you can decide whether you'd prefer to dine on canned tuna or cold cereal while the power is out. We only want to see a tree in our house at holiday time, for one thing, and the extra-heavy outdoor furniture we splurged on seems like less of a good idea when we're lugging it inside as those cruel winds begin to blow. Consider having your home evaluated by a building inspector to...

Private property rights lie at the very heart of freedom for if a man (or a company formed by man) is not free to dispose of his own property as he chooses (within the limits that he and his fellow men have defined in the laws they adopt for their society), he is not free in any real sense of the term. Private property rights lie at the very heart of freedom for if a man (or a company formed by man) is not free to dispose of his own property as he chooses (within the limits that he and his...

In fact it comes from an organisation called EarthSave, which is run and funded, so far as I can tell, by the usual array of free-range communists and fair trade hippies. What s more, demand for beef means more and more of the world s forests are being chopped down, and more and more pressure is being put on our water supplies. Plainly, then, EarthSave is encouraging us to go into the countryside at the first possible opportunity and lay waste to anything with more than one stomach. So if...