AIIIIEEEEEEEE! Chengdu, China, barber Liu Deyuan, 53, is one of the few who still provide traditional “eye-shaving,” in which he holds the eye open and runs a razor across the lids’ inner surfaces. Then, using a thin metal rod with a round tip, he gently massages the inside of each lid. Liu told a reporter […]
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Help Out Surfrider Maui On International Surf Day
In the wave-washed November of 2009, leading luminaries of the Surfrider Foundation gathered on the most famous surfing coast on the planet–the North Shore of Oahu–to talk business. This rainbow mix of environmental warriors had traveled from Honolulu, the Outer Islands and Southern California to address an emerging emergency: How will Hawaii–the birthplace of surfing, […]
Why a Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council member wants the whales removed from the endangered species list
It’s hard to imagine these days–especially if you’re standing on any south or west-face Maui beach in the winter for more than a minute–but even just 50 years ago there were fewer than 1,500 humpback whales in the North Pacific. Whaling, which devastated whale populations around the world, had largely been banned around the world, […]
Democratic Congressional Representative Tulsi Gabbard Talks Tough On North Korea While ACLU Hawaii Sues State Corrections Department
GABBARD RATCHETS UP NORTH KOREA RHETORIC There’s nothing like a just-before-going-to-sleep screening of the 1965 Sidney Poitier/Richard Widmark film The Bedford Incident to really put your mind at ease regarding nuclear war. Oh, you haven’t seen the flick (or read the 1963 James Poe novel of the same name)? Well, it’s really just Moby Dick, […]