Buffett's Wife Fends Off Intruder - AOL Money & Finance

Seeded on Fri Sep 7, 2007 8:03 AM EDT (AOL)

A less-than-subtle (he rang the doorbell) would-be thief at the Buffetts' house in Omaha is foiled by the security guard, hits the guard over the head, and runs away.

us-news, warren-buffett, theft, omaha

Publishers Weekly interview with Brian McLaren

Seeded on Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:56 AM EDT (publishersweekly.com)

Brian McLaren talks about Christianity's role in the world today, comparing it with early Christianity under the Roman Empire.

religion, interviews, emerging-church, rome, christianity, withdrawal, engagement, brian-mclaren

Dallas misses out on federal transportation grant 11:11 AM CT | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Latest News

Seeded on Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:44 PM EDT (The Dallas Morning News)

travel, transportation

Enormous, brutal, smelly creature more than myth to Amazon tribes / Reports of sightings lead scientists to try to track down beast

Seeded on Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:32 AM EDT (The San Francisco Chronicle)

South American legends of the mapinguary--a fetid beast that can make you dizzy and turn day into night--should not undermine the solid fossil evidence of a giant ground sloth larger than a modern elephant.

science, sloths, yeti, legend, amazon

Oregon man takes lawn chair up to 13,000 feet | KOMO-TV - Seattle, Washington | Local & Regional

Seeded on Fri Jul 13, 2007 2:20 PM EDT (komotv.com)

us-news, oregon, helium-balloons, lawn-chair

Voyage en pays de Calligraphie | l'encre, les idéogrammes et leur évolution au Japon

Seeded on Mon Jun 25, 2007 1:14 PM EDT (Le Monde)

Japanese calligraphy video

arts, calligraphy, japan

Ocelots hanging on to small part of Texas | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Latest News

Seeded on Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:47 AM EDT (The Dallas Morning News)

The headline in the print edition was "Not a Lot of Ocelots." It cracked me up.

science, ocelots, wildcats, nature, endangered-species

UNT music events calendar

Seeded on Sun Jun 24, 2007 8:07 PM EDT (web3.music.unt.edu)

arts, music, university-of-north-texas

Hawk, Escaped Lamb Roam NYC Streets

Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:07 PM EDT

By Associated Press (Clipped by theonetruesteph)

A hawk down in midtown Manhattan? Another bird of prey grounded across town? A lamb on the lam in the Bronx? True. All in one day. The series of animal adventures began around 10 a.m. Wednesday when a former parks commissioner reported spotting a hawk that had crash landed. At about 11:30 a.m., several blocks away, came a report of another wounded bird, this time an American kestrel.

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