Sat-nav turtles go on trans-ocean trek AFP via Yahoo!Xtra News Tue, 04 Jan 2011 18:12 PM PST PARIS (AFP) - Satellite tracking devices have shed light on an astonishing trans-Atlantic odyssey undertaken by the leatherback turtle, one of the world's most ancient species, as it goes on a feeding foray before breeding, scientists said on Wednesday. | For older people, walking faster may be linked to living longer, a study finds Los Angeles Times Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:49 PM PST Time to step it up -- for older people, there may be a connection between walking at a faster pace and living longer. We first reported this study in summer 2009 when it was presented at the IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics in Paris. Tuesday the Journal of the American Medical Assn. released the study, which is again garnering attention. | Willy Decker Reinvents La Traviata at the Met The New York Observer Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:23 PM PST Sometime in the fall of 1852, the composer Giuseppe Verdi decided that his next opera would be based on Alexandre Dumas' play The Lady of the Camellias . The play, which had been a hit in Paris earlier that year, was a semi-autobiographical story about a high-end prostitute, her love for a young bourgeois gentleman and her eventual death from tuberculosis. With its sympathetic but unsentimental ... | Happy Ending SF Weekly Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:11 PM PST Thrillpeddlers, well-known for blowing dust and gristle off Grand Guignol plays from early-20th-century Paris, have set their sights a bit closer to home for their Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival. Forty years ago, the Cockettes â" a lurid, shimmering, acid-soaked theater troupe composed of gay... | High Kicks and Low Life: Toulouse-Lautrec Independent Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:26 PM PST Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec has been described by a contemporary critic as, âthe quintessential chronicler of Parisâ. The work of the artist (1864-1901) immediately evokes the decadent atmosphere of fin-de siècle Paris. And a touch of gay Paree might well rub off on Bedford next month when the British Museum Tour of his work arrives at Bedford Gallery. | | |
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