At the first signs of flowers along the stem, he said he brings his plants inside, places them in warm water, thus inducing blooming for the other buds. Hitsman, who's participated in the exhibit since the late 1960s, said for her the joy of showing comes more from exploring her own artistic expression than it does from winning. Lisette Hitsman, supervisor of the Town of Union Vale, is one exhibitor showing off her stuff with five submissions that helped add to the panoply of colors...

Movie pirates get their booty from one of three sources: industry insiders, projectionists, or agents placed inside disc-stamping plants and retail outlets. His brown hair is in perpetual disarray, and he pads around his office with bare feet, dressed in cargo shorts and a faded polo. A baroque array of computer equipment fills the next, including 13 CPUs and 16 external hard drives (for a total of 3 terabytes of storage) Forest runs his business from the first floor of his rural...

This summer, as we scurry to and from relatively safe workplaces and enjoy weekends (and even entire weeks) away from work, it might be good to remember - or study up on - the enormous sacrifices made by minority groups in winning some very basic rights that Americans of all colors today take for granted. This summer, as we scurry to and from relatively safe workplaces and enjoy weekends (and even entire weeks) away from work, it might be good to remember - or study up on - the enormous...

Ground and forest fires on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo have resulted in the choking haze spreading as far as Malaysia and Singapore, prompting calls for Jakarta to halt all sources of the smoke. JAKARTA : Indonesian Forestry Minister Malem Sambet Kaban has urged local administrative heads to play a more active role in preventing land clearing by fire, blamed for the thick smoking haze that has blanketed the region. The fires are an annual phenomena that occur as farmers and...

And don't be surprised if they describe them as having the climbing strength of a mountain goat, the agility of a deer and the reproductive capacity of a rabbit to complement their amazing sense of smell, razor-sharp teeth and tusks, and uncommon intelligence. Hunting hogs probably conjures up images of clamoring to a slop trough and firing away at a lethargic animal that's wallowing and grunting at his executioner as if the shotgun were something to eat. And don't be surprised if they...

Carbon dioxide, the most plentiful of the greenhouse gases, is produced by power plants, cars, manufacturing, and residential and commercial buildings. Many of the world's most preeminent scientists including those at the University of California, the Scripps Institute, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory all predict serious consequences for our planet unless we make major changes in our consumption of energy and strongly move away from energy sources that produce global warming...

It might not be quite a case of you can't see the forest for the derricks, but places of beauty can take only so much of the footprint of the modern industrial world. Forest Service has proposed a 10-year management plan for the natural asset which could be improved if enough people make their views known. The Forest Service's management plan sets timber cutting limits, but it does not place oil and gas exploration among its "major issues. We also wonder how accommodating state and local...

In time these forests, which anyone can visit, will become a haven for birds and other wildlife. It offers any Internet user worldwide the opportunity to name a tree, have it planted near the lake and to track its further life for ages on a regular basis. Treeflights.com, launched last month, is a new scheme that gives people an easy way to offset the CO2 released when they fly. One tree is planted per passenger flight and as it grows it gradually re-absorbs the CO2 produced in the flight....

Cause Sought in Russian Jetliner Crash By SERGEI VENYAVSKY Associated Press Writer The Associated Press SUKHA BALKA, UkraineInvestigators focused Wednesday on weather conditions, including lightning and turbulence, as the possible cause of the crash of a Russian jetliner in a swampy field in eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people aboard. Cause Sought in Russian Jetliner Crash By SERGEI VENYAVSKY Associated Press Writer The Associated Press SUKHA BALKA, UkraineInvestigators focused...