Erin Brockovich, the gutsy environmental activist whose life story won Julia Roberts an Oscar, has apologised for being drunk in a boat. She looked very much the worse for wear in the mugshot police released after they arrested her for allegedly driving a boat while intoxicated
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Fish With Human-Like Teeth Found
Lake Lou Yaeger’s superintendent Jim Caldwell brought the fish to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources after initially responding to a report that a piranha had been caught. The lab quickly identified it as a pacu. There are conflicting reports that a second pacu fish had been spotted shortly after. The is how did a […]
The Broken Promise
The little shed behind Joy Whitehouse’s modest home is filled with aluminum cans–soda cans, soup cans and vegetable cans–that she collects from neighbors or finds during her periodic expeditions along the roadside.
Water Worries
At sea lake in Western Victoria, Bob McClelland is harvesting wheat — and grateful to be doing it.
The Waters Of Life
Twice a year the monks and priests of the Church of Narga Selassie on Dek Island in northern Ethiopia gather to bless an urn of water scooped from the lake that surrounds them.
Hanoi’s Reclusive Lake Turtle Forced Out of Its Shell
It was a lengthy, set-back laden struggle watched by a city of increasingly curious people.
The Press: Trial by Reporters
Cruising in the West Indies in December 1934, Vera Stretz met Dr. Fritz Gebhardt.
How Guatemala’s Most Beautiful Lake Turned Ugly
In his 1934 travel book Beyond the Mexique Bay, Aldous Huxley compared Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan to Italy’s Lake Como. The Italian body of water, he wrote, “touches the limit of the permissibly picturesque.” Atitlan, however, “is Como with the additional embellishment of several immense volcanoes.
Massive African lake could dry up, U.N. agency says
Up to 30 million people are facing “a humanitarian disaster” as one of Africa’s biggest lakes shrinks, a United Nations agency warned Thursday.
Jaycee Dugard opens up after 18-year kidnapping ordeal
The first images are emerging of an adult Jaycee Dugard, the woman who was kidnapped when she was 11 and allegedly held captive for 18 years by a couple in an elaborate compound hidden in the backyard. Dugard is featured on the cover of the new issue of People magazine, smiling brightly in the photo, her face framed by long brown hair