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    Luxury safaris set up camps amid the animals

    Luxury safaris set up camps amid the animals

    OKAVANGO DELTA, ­Botswana — It was a scene straight out of a Hemingway ­novel. Gin and tonic in one hand and slathered with mosquito repellent, I sat on the deck of my tent in this remote outpost in the bush, watching as a blood-red ­African sky began fading to ­darkness.


COLUMNISTS
  • tidbits what's cooking at Central Kentucky Restaurants

    Summit combines the classic with the modern

    Wayne Masterman has done it again. He's pulled all the right people together to open another upscale restaurant.


Merlene Davis
  • Commentary

    Young naval recruit has me worried

    Fine y0ung man doesn't seem to realize the risks that come with the benefits

    One of my sons' friends dropped by recently to proudly tell us he had joined the Navy and couldn't wait to start basic training.


Medicine
  • Daily checkup

    Researchers have found that people with a common variant of a gene that helps the body handle sugar are more likely to crave foods like soda and cake. Sucrose, fructose and glucose -- if it is sugar, they like it.
  • From poorhouse to show house

    Renovated Frankfort home has a long, rich history

    FRANKFORT — Thomas Dorman was too busy to renovate the historic home he bought more than 20 years ago — until he lost his job.

  • Garden is fertile ground for reconciliation

    Empty lot is fertile ground for seeds of reconciliation

    Upon his death in 1854, London Ferrill was buried on East Third Street in the Episcopal Burying Ground's rector's plot. He was not the rector at Lexington's influential and powerful Christ Church, nor had he ever been.

  • Summer is for reading

    Library programs help kids catch 'enlightening bug'

    Summer's almost here, and kids are counting the days until they can put their textbooks to rest for a while. But that doesn't mean all books have to be tossed aside. Area libraries and literacy programs are hoping to encourage kids to keep reading for fun all summer long with an array of activities and special events.

  • Wii Fit will pull gamers off the couch

    Wii Fit will pull gamers off the couch and onto a balance board

    Playing video games has long been synonymous with being a couch potato.

  • Web sites offer lots of giveaways

    For starters, check these Web sites for lots of giveaways

    Don't worry, I am not going to get all crazy, telling you to stop buying a $3 ­coffee every morning or to grow your own food.

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