Galveston island’s ethos is one of conservation. Serving the mainland as a natural barrier, offering shelter for migrating birds and enjoying a reputation as one of Texas’ leading tourist destinations, sustainability is key to the island’s survival.
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Knightly Virtues
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Some actors inhabit a role so perfectly that it can go on to haunt their careers – Christopher Reeve’s Superman, Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones and Sean Connery’s Bond, to take…
The ‘F’ Word
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When I told a friend that I was reading about the experience of Marian Partington, the sister of one of the women killed by Frederick and Rosemary West, in her…
Fluid And Flexible
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Traditional boundaries are disappearing. As work and leisure time become more fluid, generational boundaries dissolve and what’s real and virtual merge, we’re demanding more flexible lives. We change jobs…
Antivirus Activist
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It is a long, slow dance in which he and HIV are engaged; on the good days, Pontiano sees the incremental steps forward. On the bad ones, the virus seems…
Fear No Boundary?
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The desire to cross oceans and push back the boundaries of the known world gripped countless explorers in preceding centuries, yet was still fresh in the nineteen hundreds. Apart from…
Belonging and Boundaries
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Wherever we go there are boundaries, but we have to keep thinking, we have to keep changing, keep asking if these boundaries are right for us. Out-of-town shopping centres…
Water Wars
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The trouble with water – and there is trouble with water – is that they’re not making any more of it. They’re not making any less, but no more either…
Waterside Views
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I have always been drawn to the water. I was conceived in room 16 of the art deco Midland Hotel overlooking Morecambe Bay and spent the first part of my…
