2007 – Sublime

Galveston: Conservation & Resilience

Sublime Team — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 09:23:50 +0000

Galveston island's ethos is one of conservation. Serving the mainland as a natural barrier, offering shelter for migrating birds and enjoying a reputation as one of Texas' leading tourist destinations, sustainability is key to the island's survival.

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The ‘F’ Word

laurasan — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:00:00 +0000

When I told a friend that I was reading about the experience of Marian Partington, the sister of one of the women killed by Frederick and Rosemary West, in her journey to try to forgive, he said something along the lines of, ‘Why the hell should she?!’ – as if it was an unreasonable request,...

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Knightly Virtues

Stephen Armstrong — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:00:00 +0000

Some actors inhabit a role so perfectly that it can go on to haunt their careers – Christopher Reeve’s Superman, Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones and Sean Connery’s Bond, to take three examples. With Viggo Mortensen, it will be hard to shake his barnstorming performance as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings. He took a...

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Fluid And Flexible

laurasan — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:00:00 +0000

Traditional boundaries are disappearing. As work and leisure time become more fluid, generational boundaries dissolve and what’s real and virtual merge, we’re demanding more flexible lives. We change jobs more frequently and we want more flexibility from our working hours. We want stores and services that are open and available when it suits us....

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Antivirus Activist

laurasan — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:00:00 +0000

It is a long, slow dance in which he and HIV are engaged; on the good days, Pontiano sees the incremental steps forward. On the bad ones, the virus seems always out of reach, with one more manoeuvre in its arsenal, one more way to keep from giving up its secrets. But Pontiano has a...

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Fear No Boundary?

laurasan — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:00:00 +0000

The desire to cross oceans and push back the boundaries of the known world gripped countless explorers in preceding centuries, yet was still fresh in the nineteen hundreds. Apart from lofty mountains, notably Everest, the geographical world had been pretty thoroughly explored, and the potential for adventurism to turn into acquisitivism and imperialism was becoming...

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Belonging and Boundaries

Wayne Hemingway — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:00:00 +0000

Wherever we go there are boundaries, but we have to keep thinking, we have to keep changing, keep asking if these boundaries are right for us. Out-of-town shopping centres and retail parks land like aliens. We go through their automatic doors into an air-conditioned environment of chain stores, all semblance of independent spirit purged...

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Water Wars

laurasan — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:00:00 +0000

The trouble with water – and there is trouble with water – is that they’re not making any more of it. They’re not making any less, but no more either – there is the same amount of water on the planet now as there was in prehistoric times. People, however, they’re making more of –...

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Waterside Views

Wayne Hemingway — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:00:00 +0000

I have always been drawn to the water. I was conceived in room 16 of the art deco Midland Hotel overlooking Morecambe Bay and spent the first part of my life crabbing in Morecambe’s boating pools, digging for ragworm with my Pop on the mussel beds and fishing for flatties off the stone jetty. Some...

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The Controlling Element

laurasan — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:00:00 +0000

As every schoolchild knows, we human beings are 70 per cent water, not counting the fat. We need between one and seven litres of water per day to keep going, to keep all of the organs running, to look good (skin), and think efficiently (brain). In a neat parallel, 70 per cent of the world’s...

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