BEEBE, Ark. — Wildlife officials are trying to determine what caused more than 1,000 black birds to die and fall from the sky over an Arkansas town. The birds fell over a 1-mile area of Beebe, and an aerial survey indicated that no other dead birds were found outside of that area.
BRASILIA, Brazil — From torture in a dictatorship-era jail cell to the helm of Latin America’s largest nation, it’s been an unlikely political rise for President Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist rebel turned career technocrat who claimed Brazil’s seat of power Saturday.
Red Rock Canyon: On Monday, a moderate, 4½-mile hike around part of the Grand Circle. On Tuesday, a moderate, 5-mile hike with a 500-foot elevation gain at Potato Knoll. Also Tuesday, a moderate, 3-mile meteor shower night hike. Bring a flashlight. On Thursday, a moderate, 5-mile hike around another part of the Grand Circle. On Friday, a moderate 3-mile hike with a minimal elevation gain and some scrambling at the Arnight Knoll Loop. On Saturday, a moderate, 3-4-mile hike around the Red Springs Area (515-5367).
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TREKS FOR RX: Medical tourism, the practice of people traveling outside their localities to get health care, gained prominence as Americans flew abroad to get surgical procedures at a fraction of the domestic cost. Some observers want Las Vegas to use its mix of hospitals and hotels to promote medical tourism here in hopes of boosting the valley’s economy.
Local business owners Eva Zalewski and Robert Vitto didn’t know what they’d stumbled across. The partners, also a couple outside the professional world, were running an orchid-growing company in 1999 when they bought out another dealer’s entire stock of exotic plants.
Tom Letizia started his career in the 1970s as a disc jockey with a bad habit of talking back to bosses. Over three years, he learned radio and television skills on the job at several stations in Las Vegas. He switched careers from radio disc jockey to television advertising salesman.