For the Ozone Layer, a New Look

Proof that international environmental protocols do more than delay the inevitable and cost big business a bit of spare change…

Is the ozone layer healing? Satellite observation of the hole that developed over Antarctica in the mid-1980’s shows that it has split in two and has shrunk considerably since last year, making it the smallest it has been since 1988.

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Bandleader Ray Conniff dead

I’ve never seen the film ‘Dr Zhivago’ and I wasn’t even born when the theme was a hit, but I can recall it note for note. The Ray Conniff singers were legendary. He was old. He’d had a stroke earlier in the year. He wasn’t likely to have released another hit in the foreseeable future. He fell down. He’s no longer with us. It’s always sad when that happens.

RAY Conniff, the composer, trombone player and bandleader who won a Grammy Award for his recording of the “Dr Zhivago” theme “Somewhere My Love”, has died. He was 85.

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