You lost your 401(k)? I lost something more! Unlike so many kids who grew up in the city, I never thought vegetables actually grew in the supermarket -- my mother informed me they germinated beneath the fingernails of children who didn't wash properly. And yet, it wasn't until we slipped into the Year of the Ox on the Chinese Astrological Calendar earlier this week that I realized an ox wasn't just a yak- or buffalo-like creature. No, an ox is simply a castrated bull (four years or older and tau
At the same time hundreds of dead gray whales were washing up on beaches, their birthrate was plunging. Theories abound, but little hard data has been gathered to solve this environmental puzzle.