Category Archives: ESL Links

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) – A 133-pound tome about the Asian country of Bhutan that uses enough paper to cover a football field and a gallon of ink has been declared the world’s largest published book. Author Michael Hawley, a scientist … Continue reading →

This week the Dowbrigade received two highly unusual and much anticipated letters from the Personnel Office of the major metropolitan university where he has his "cover" job.  The first brought the welcome news that after three years without any faculty … Continue reading →

Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology paid tribute to the 100th anniversary of man’s first powered flight Wednesday by perching a replica of the Wright brothers’ plane 150 feet high, atop the school’s Great Dome.The rough replica, which appeared … Continue reading →

from Ananova Male students at a Canadian university are being offered a free two-week holiday in Australia in return for their sperm. An advert has been placed in the University of Calgary’s student newspaper by the Reproductive Medicine Clinic in … Continue reading →

from Jack Hoya

Central Square, Cambridge has always represented the sleazy underbelly of the city, a dark doppleganger to brilliant Harvard Square just down Massachusetts Avenue, and awash in unwashed street people, cut-rate liquor stores, cheap bars, adult video stores, check-cashing outlets and … Continue reading →

Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chad Johnson was fined $10,000 by the NFL on Tuesday for holding up a sign directed at the league while celebrating a touchdown catch. After his 10-yard touchdown reception on the Bengals’ first possession of Sunday’s 41-38 … Continue reading →

Although my many Korean students unanimously disagree, in a typical fit of Know-it-all-ism the Dowbrigade firmly believes that North and South Korea will be united, a la Germany, before the end of the decade. Part of the reason we believe … Continue reading →

Seventeen people were injured Monday night when a Municipal Railway bus swerved off Mission Street and crashed into an adult video store, police said. One of the injured, a 60-year-old man, was in critical condition with head injuries. The accident … Continue reading →

VS. After decades in the political wasteland, Giants once again stride over the American political scene.  The nascent century has finally produced a Presidential confrontation worthy of George Washington vs. John Adams (1789), Thomas Jefferson vs. Aaron Burr (1800), FDR … Continue reading →

We have been a happy household at the Dowbrigade lately, the lovely Norma Yvonne has finally been granted a Green Card. Its seems that at last, after six years of marriage, five-and-a-half years after our initial Green Card interview, after … Continue reading →