• 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 […]

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