Category Archives: ESL Links

WASHINGTON (AP) — Researchers studying rocks from Antarctica have found chemical evidence that a huge meteorite smashed the Earth 251 million years ago and caused the greatest extinction event in the planet’s history, killing about 90 percent of all life. … Continue reading →

Bethany Hamilton, 13, rising surfing star who lost her arm to a tiger shark while surfing on Halloween is interviewed on Wed. Nov. 18, 2003, at Kilauea, Hawaii. She said, ‘I wasn’t that scared.’ Hamilton said she will continue to … Continue reading →

"WHEN PRESIDENTS AND POLITICIANS LIE, IT IS THE JOB OF THE PRESS TO EXPOSE AND CHALLENGE THOSE LIES. WHEN THE PRESS FAILS, THE LIES BECOME LAW. THE POINT OF THE TELL US THE TRUTH TOUR IS TO HELP OTHERS MAKE … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON — Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday that law-enforcement agents had arrested 125 suspects in a crackdown on Internet crimes ranging from hacking and software piracy to credit card fraud and selling stolen goods over the Internet. The investigation, … Continue reading →

Note: This story has absolutely nothing to do with Michael Jackson, although the sea squirt pictured below does look like a Michael Jackson sex toy. width=”302″ height=”272″> from the Boston Globe Goopy colonies of a foreign animal called a sea … Continue reading →

SANTA BARBARA, Michael Jackson, with his hands cuffed behind his back, was led into the county jail here on Thursday afternoon and booked on charges of child molesting, beginning what promises to be one of the biggest legal spectacles in … Continue reading →

The Dowbrigade is all aglow in the reflected glory of another great new blog spawned by an attendee at the BloggerCon Blogging 101 sessions. This particular entry is the brainchild of the intriguingly named Al Wayztravelin. Called Simply Live Anywhere, … Continue reading →

Anne Rindlaub Dow, who for more than 20 years directed English as a second language programs at Harvard, died Oct. 31, 2003, after a two-year battle with multiple myeloma. She was 65. The Dowbrigade mourns. from the Cambridge Chronicle

A mafia hacker tells his story to Wired Everyone thinks they know what the mob is like. It’s something you learn from watching The Sopranos and GoodFellas, something that involves Joe Pesci, baked manicotti, and a dead guy in the … Continue reading →

It has occurred to the Dowbrigade that yesterday’s posting on Gay Marriage was rather too flippant for what may turn out to be the pivotal issue in the upcoming knife fight for the white house. As the Dowbrigade would be … Continue reading →

Standing at just 5 feet tall, Mario would be the shortest U.S. president ever, 4 inches shorter than James Madison. He would be only the second bachelor president, after James Buchanan (Princess Peach has offered to take on the duties … Continue reading →

A US university is covering its Christmas trees with the pungent scent that skunks spray – to discourage thieves. The University of Minnesota is going to spray between 400-500 pine trees with two gallons of the natural ingredient. Within hours … Continue reading →