Uncommon Gifts Resources

Teaching Unfamiliar Accents
Plays borrowed from the headlines are not an uncommon phenomenon, and nowadays plays inspired in one way or another by international relations are hardly unexpected.

Charity on the campaign trail
Charity on the campaign trail

CHARITY ON CAMPAIGN TRAIL
President Barack Obama and Oval Office hopefuls Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have all released at least one year of tax returns. And they all gave big money to charity.

RIM’s ex-CEOs never took the easy way out
One era over for BlackBerry maker; let next era be as successful

'Tis the season for shoplifting?
hjohnson@nptelegraph.com

Pigeon deterrents: a question of chemistry
If you want your statues clean (and your pigeons healthy), you just need to make them of bronze laced with arsenic As the heavens inevitably cover every mountain peak with snow, so do pigeons unstoppably deposit a protective white layer atop every outdoor statue – or so people believed. Yukio Hirose shocked and delighted the world by disproving one of these two supposedly eternal truths. He used ...

Chinese New Year Cards Bring Good Fortune & Sales Growth to Greeting Card Universe Ushering in the Year of the Dragon
Greeting Card Universe, the world’s largest greeting card store, announces robust and growing sales of 66% year over year of Chinese New Year cards for 2012 to herald in the most auspicious of the Chinese zodiac, the year of the Dragon, celebrated this year on January 23rd. Boasting over 520,000 original card designs, Greeting Card Universe has quickly become the online destination for shoppers ...

'Chronicle' surprises
With superteens who don't suck. by Sam Eifling In "Chronicle," the aquarium-eyed Dane DeHaan plays a high-school outcast named Andrew, whose life sucks even by high-school standards. His mother's dying of something slow and terrible, his father is a violent drunk, girls rightly think he's weird and bullies like to yank on his head. His life reads as a prelude to a school shooting until his ...

From WWII soldiers to the Aquinos–shrines to Tarlac’s heroes
Most travelers pass through Tarlac province without a second look, save for the requisite pit stop at a roadside combo of lavatory, gas station and restaurants.