Puzzles: Simple Groups at Play [Features] (Scientific American)
This story is a supplement to the feature "Rubik's Cube Inspired Puzzles Demonstrate Math's "Simple Groups" which was printed in the July 2008 issue of Scientific American. M12 Puzzle [More]
Helping Hand (Louisville Courier-Journal)
Clark County Youth Shelter and Family Services, 118 E. Chestnut St., Jeffersonville, needs games, cards, puzzles, craft items for ages 11-18, clothing, personal-care items, plastic bowls with lids, T-shirts, underwear, socks, tennis shoes, towels,
Death of gharial hatchlings puzzles experts (HT via Yahoo! India News)
EVEN AS scientists across the world try to figure out the cause of mass deaths of highly endangered gharials in Chambal Sanctuary earlier this year, Forest Department officials are baffled by the low survival rate of gharial hatchlings.Of the 280 eggs that were brought to Gharial Breeding Centre at Kukrail in Lucknow, from Chambal, this season, only 181 survived.
Is that Zoo? Yes, & it's easy to get into (Philadelphia Daily News)
Girard Avenue's No. 1 attraction, the Philadelphia Zoo, has lost three beloved residents this year: Puzzles and Twigga the giraffes and Petal the elephant.
ARCHIVE SEARCH (East Bay Express)
Escaping criminals toss guns around, jeans get jacked, and a missing man's car puzzles Berkeley police. Readers sound off on Tom Orloff, the Asian language cuts at Cal, Reginald Ray-Savage, the Mind Power Collective, and, yes, John Yoo.
Dismissal of wrestling coach puzzles (The Staunton News Leader)
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Architect hopes new skyscraper keeps us spinning (AP via Yahoo! News)
An Italian architect said he is poised to start construction on a new skyscraper in Dubai that will be "the world's first building in motion," an 80-story tower with revolving floors that give it an ever-shifting shape.
Library guest (Lampasas Dispatch Record)
Bonzo Crunch will be featured at the Lampasas Public Library Thursday at 10 a.m. for a 30- minute storytime presentation during the Summer Reading Program. Youngsters, ages 2 to 12, can earn a free circus ticket by participating in the reading club. Other prizes include bookmarks, puzzles and co…
Puzzles pose solution to team-building (London Free Press)
Viewers of the Amazing Race know that participants rarely emerge from the contest unchanged. Sometimes the twosome is drawn closer together, their friendship strengthened by the intensity of the experience.
Slashing of tires on 70 vehicles puzzles police (The Grand Rapids Press)
YANKEE SPRINGS TOWNSHIP — Vandals almost dashed Russell Hall's plan to watch his son installed as a deacon Sunday at a Grand Rapids church. He was among dozens of Shady Shores Resort residents who discovered slashed tires on their vehicles Sunday morning.