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Bear Caught In Downtown Colorado Springs
KRDO - COLORADO SPRINGS - A bear makes itself felt in downtown Colorado Springs. Someone inadvertently herded into the Capco Tile and Stone warehouse on 30 West Costilla about 10:30 this morning.

 

 

 

Cracking open Anheuser-Busch
Reuters - It might not be apple pie, but for some loyal swillers, Budweiser beer is just as significant an American institution. The Weekend Wall Street Journal is reporting, though, that the red-and-white-aluminum emblem may be on the radar of Leuven, ...

 

 

 

20-Year Journey for 15-Minute Fall By MATT HIGGINS  Michel Fournier, 64, has spent two decades and nearly $20 million in a quest to fly to the upper atmosphere with a helium balloon, just so he can jump back to earth.

 

 

36 Hours in Cartagena, Colombia

 

 

 

Toad-venom 'love stone' kills man
Illegal aphrodisiac responsible for 4 men in New York City dying between 1993 and 1995
--New York Times

 

Crocodile, shark clash in battle Down Under
'We were about 15 meters away and it didn't bat an eyelid'
--London Telegraph

 

Telecommuter sends mobile robot to work
Office avatar lets engineer attend meetings, be part of team ... 800 miles away
--Christian Science Monitor

 

How Are Humans Unique?

By MICHAEL TOMASELLO

We may or may not be smarter than apes, but we are definitely more social.

 

 

'McMafia'

By MISHA GLENNY
Reviewed by PETER ROBB

A look at the global phenomenon of organized crime.

• First Chapter

'Sleeping It Off in Rapid City'

By AUGUST KLEINZAHLER
Reviewed by STEPHEN BURT

New poems and old, retrieved from dreams and peregrinations, here and on other continents.

• An Excerpt From 'Sleeping It Off in Rapid City'

'The Big Squeeze'

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Reviewed by ROBERT H. FRANK

The outlook for the American worker: increasingly hostile.

• First Chapter

'Panther Soup'

By JOHN GIMLETTE
Reviewed by CRAIG R. WHITNEY

A British lawyer and travel writer retraces a march upcountry with a former U.S. lieutenant.

• First Chapter

 

Boîte

Son of Speak-Easy

By RICHARD MORGAN

Anchoring a trinity of luxury waterfront condo towers near West 11th Street is a seemingly out-of-place dive bar, the Rusty Knot.