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An American tourist claims he discoverd a pair of elephants on Palawan.

Sailor Philip Maise has an unusual hobby. He uses his yacht, the world's largest traditionally rigged sailing paraw, to sail along the coast lines of the Philippines and searches for places to explore.

Maise is also from Hawaii and lives on the slopes of an actively errupting volcano.

"I believe it is my three passions of history, sailing, and volcanology that enable me to...

THE LORD KNOWS WHAT WE NEED; WE DON'T: Stopped in to get some milk and juice, the clerk was a nice lady of about 70 and to make conversation I said; it's a little cooler out tonight. " Yes but we shouldn't complain' she said. I nodded and said we have to take what we get. Then she said " the Lord gives us what we need because we don't know what we need." That statement raised so many questions in my mind that I didn't respond and here a day later I am still wondering where she got...

In my experience, most people in the USA do not understand that we have a graduated (or "progressive") income tax"

And why would we? Not all of us do our own taxes and many of us hate math.

We often hear from politicians that the rich are taxes "more." Yet in reality, we all are taxed "more."

After the impact of sleep disorders and sleep deprivation on society, this is the one thing that i am most passionate about:...

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