The Hudson Valley tour includes the stone-fenced fields of Columbia and Dutchess counties, and a river cruise and dinner at the Culinary Institute of America.

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The bodies of eight underweight stone curlews have been discovered in fields in Norfolk, Suffolk and Wiltshire over the past few days.

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The Voyager project scientist at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ed Stone, said he wanted to see a reorientation of the magnetic fields around the probe before declaring it to be in interstellar space.

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The course is beautiful, a jaw dropper at every turn, starting with a classic parkland section, featuring lots of water, tons of beautiful stone bulkheading, and a middle section that climbs into high, barren fields overlooking the lake and the rest of the course with a pronounced links feel, before returning to the lake for dramatic finishing holes including, oddly, a long par-3 over the lake for eighteen.

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Visiting the set of Elysian Fields, the Mick Jagger movie, Waitt stares dreamily as the Rolling Stone and actress Angelica Huston embrace passionately for the camera.

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Just last month the company bid to increase its stake in deep water through the purchase of several fields from a BP (BP) eager to shed assets, a deal that Stone hopes will close next month.

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