By Maya M. Padillo
GENERAL SANTOS CITY — Apart from tuna, they say there’s nothing more to see in this city. But that is not necessarily so, because sprawling in a half hectare property in the downtown area is a goldmine of valuable things that are rusty, weathered, chipped, and vintage.
MONTEREY — With the phenomenal box office achievements of Finding Nemo a fading memory, Pixar is attempting to succeed where many studios have failed — with a hit sequel years after the original.
PARIS, FRANCE — The Bombay night frog, scientists revealed Tuesday, favors a mating position previously unknown among the amphibian group’s 7,000 species, only the seventh catalogued in what might be called the Kamasutra for frogs.
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
WHILE aware that health is wealth, in pursuit of worldly wealth we sacrifice our wellness, thinking that perhaps money can buy anything including fitness. But it can’t. Not really.
By Erik Larson, Bloomberg
“FORCES OF OPPOSITION bow down. You are single-handedly outnumbered.” That’s how one advertisement reads for a semiautomatic rifle made by Bushmaster, whose AR-15 is increasingly the gun of choice for America’s mass shooters, including the suspect in Sunday’s massacre at a gay dance club in Orlando, Florida. “Consider your man card reissued,” another one reads, the text adjacent to a black AR-15 against a stark white background. The bright red logo of the gun’s maker stands out: a red cobra coiled around a rifle, bearing its fangs.
MADRID — “Making parents out of our patients,” reads an ad in Madrid’s metro for one of Spain’s many fertility clinics that have opened their doors to husbands and wives, same-sex couples and single women thanks to lenient laws.
LIONSGATE’s family adventure Norm of the North is now in a Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and On Demand. Follow the adventures of Norm, a polar bear from the Arctic who happens to have some very unusual talents and has to head outside of his comfort zone to save his home. Norm embarks on an adventure in New York City with his lemming pals as they all try to stop greedy humans from turning the Arctic into a suburban neighborhood. He also makes some new friends along the way.
GRINDAVIK, ICELAND — On a recent weeknight Iceland’s top tourist attraction, the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa, is packed with visitors wearing mud masks and quaffing local beer, contributing to a tourism surge that is helping to fix an economy wrecked by the 2008 financial crisis.
COMPETITION IS TOUGH among local and international cosmetics and skin care products in the Philippines. The folks behind Celeteque acknowledge this. To set itself apart from the bevy of beauty products, Celeteque, a Filipino brand under Unilab, emphasizes that it is “clinically tested and co-created by Filipino dermatologists with Filipino skin in mind.”
MT. PINATUBO erupted on June 15, 1991 — it was the second largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. The active stratovolcano straddles the boundaries of three provinces in Luzon: Tarlac, Pampanga, and Zambales.
