• The Man Who Unlocked the World| Leave a Comment

    WHEN men first went to the moon, they planned with mathematical precision where they were going and how they were going to get there. And they could communicate with home. But when Ferdinand Magellan’s five little wooden ships most of them about 70 feet [21 m] long, comparable in length to a modern semitrailer left […]

  • Must We Say Good-bye to Another Bird?| Leave a Comment

    LOVERS of wildlife are pained at its wanton destruction by thoughtless individuals. Here in the Philippines we may be nearing the point of saying good-bye to another bird. Sadly, it is a rare species, found nowhere else in the world.
    People who study birds call the endangered creature Pithecophaga jefferyi. The first of these terms means […]

  • The Tasaday Are They a “Stone Age” People?| Leave a Comment

    “A MODERN relic of the Stone Age”; “The most primitive human beings so far discovered”; “The first known living ‘cavemen.’” Through such newspaper reports, worldwide attention was focused on a twenty-five-member tribe living in the dense jungle of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Their discovery led to the forming of several expeditions composed of Filipino […]

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