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In India there is a popular story of a snake. this is narrated in the books of grade school students: “Once upon a time there was a poor family. they had only one baby. With their kindness to creatures, they were feeding a snake with milk. When the couple goes out to for field work, [...]

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A terrible accident left Mark Colbourne with paralysis in his legs, but he never lost hope. He tells Kirstie McCrum why paracycling has changed his life A sportsman who was paralysed from the waist down after an horrendous accident is looking forward to a champion future in cycling. Mark Colbourne, from Tredegar, had always enjoyed sports [...]

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I wasn’t paying attention as I took a diagonal shortcut across Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square this August. my mind was on remembering the directions from my hotel to my client’s office, where I would be working for the next two days. I almost stumbled over the guy in a black business suit who was down [...]

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It is truly heart-breaking and arduous for Christians to try and faithfully remember all those God places on our hearts to pray incessantly for. For example, we know that we should be praying for our government — national, provincial, regional and local — people in authorities within the education systems, politicians in our municipalities, etc., [...]

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An Actor Seeking Work A typical day for me while seeking work as an actor usually starts around 8:15am with a good breakfast of cereal, toast, yogurt, a big bowl of mixed fruit and green or white tea. while I’m enjoying my favorite meal of the day, the computer is connected to the internet and [...]

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Saturday October 8, 2011 Last Sunday the perennial rain increased to the intensity of a monsoon. We were shacked up at my in-laws’ house on the Maine coast, shrouded in banks of salt fog. I dressed the girls in their matching blue Kitty raincoats and flowery rubber boots and sent them out into the elements [...]

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There were six collieries on this stretch and for a century, before the last of them closed in 1993, the most economical way of getting rid of pit spoil was to dump it on the beaches. from headland to headland it lay in a black crust as much as 10ft deep in places. you may [...]

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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is finally coming to our Nintendo Wii’s on November 20. this entry in the Zelda saga is said to lay the foundation for the entire series, explaining how the Master Sword was forged, and so much more. while I would have been happy just roaming around the cloud city [...]

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There was a time, maybe 15 years ago, when it seemed you couldn’t turn around without encountering a production of Steve Martin’s “Picasso at the Lapin Agile.” Between the play’s 1993 premiere and the turn of the century, I probably saw “Picasso” a dozen times and almost knew it by heart. And while all that [...]

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August 23, 2011 in City Print Email Share   Latest in a seemingly never-ending series on nature’s attempt to murder me. as I write these words I am trying to ignore a red, itchy welt on my left wrist. Itchy tells only part of the story. There is burning, too, as if some fiend were intermittently jabbing [...]

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