The Ice Hotel Quebec-Canada is about 30 minutes west of Quebec
City, and three hours northeast of Montreal. It is built each
winter on the grounds of the Station Touristique Duchesnay, a large
resort with snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, skating,
ice-fishing and dog sledding.
Drawn by a Brazilian math teacher's Web site that describes miners
scooping up thousands of dollars in gold, between 3,000 and 10,000
people have poured in since December, cutting down huge trees,
diverting streams and digging ever-deeper wildcat mines, in an area
that only months ago was pristine rain forest.
The Coast Guard on Saturday blamed "human error" for the cause of
last week's cargo ship collision and said National Transportation
Safety Board officials today would begin an independent
investigation of the incident, in part because the Coast Guard was
in communication with the ship near the
A major campaign aimed at conserving wild salmon stocks in
Scotland?s rivers by trying to close coastal netting stations was
launched yesterday. The death of a young woman in a fire at a
settlement of holiday huts has been described as a ?tragic
accident? by police.
1 Tina Arena
The Ice Hotel Quebec-Canada is about 30 minutes west of Quebec City, and three hours northeast of Montreal. It is built each winter on the grounds of the Station Touristique Duchesnay, a large resort with snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, skating, ice-fishing and dog sledding.
2 Skew Whiff
Drawn by a Brazilian math teacher's Web site that describes miners scooping up thousands of dollars in gold, between 3,000 and 10,000 people have poured in since December, cutting down huge trees, diverting streams and digging ever-deeper wildcat mines, in an area that only months ago was pristine rain forest.
3 Kaiser Chiefs
araa, the empty-eyed host of the Hamas TV show Pioneers of Tomorrow, sings a ghoulish, degenerate song about the glories of murder and suicide.
4 Jacky Murda and RCola
The Coast Guard on Saturday blamed "human error" for the cause of last week's cargo ship collision and said National Transportation Safety Board officials today would begin an independent investigation of the incident, in part because the Coast Guard was in communication with the ship near the
5 Georges Bizet
South Middleton Twp. supervisors voted 3-2 to approve a 2008 tentative budget that does not increase taxes.
6 Mike Doughty
A major campaign aimed at conserving wild salmon stocks in Scotland?s rivers by trying to close coastal netting stations was launched yesterday. The death of a young woman in a fire at a settlement of holiday huts has been described as a ?tragic accident? by police.