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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Police believe that sidewalk chalk may have promoted a shooting on Thursday that left one man injured and another in jail. The shooting occurred at about 4 p.m. in front of a home on Sestos Drive, located on the city's south side. According to police, four children were using chalk to draw on a sidewalk when Jeffrey McDowell, 59, came out of his home and told them to stop,

A 6-year-old Park Slope girl is facing a $300 fine from the city for doing what city kids have been doing for decades: drawing a pretty picture with common sidewalk chalk.

A twin-engine seaplane lost one of its wings before it crashed off Miami Beach into the city's main shipping channel killing at least 19 people on board, a US federal safety official said on Tuesday. Mark Rosenker, acting chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, told a news conference the breaking apart of the aircraft could be seen in video footage of the Grumman G-73T Turbine Mallard, filmed in its final moments on Monday above water. "What I've seen is a separation of a wing from the aircraft and, as a result, the aircraft crashing. I can't tell you why,"...

Which one is the real guy here? On the right?...or on the left?

Meaningful Art in a Meaningful Universe: the Fallacies of Abstractionist Ideology by Frederick Turner HUMAN BEINGS TAKE A NATURAL DELIGHT IN FORM and pattern. Our eyes and visual cortex are designed to pick out shapes and hints of half-hidden presences, and to recognize the colors, textures, and fine details of natural objects. These are the necessary skills of a hunter-gatherer species, adapted to follow the obscure tracks of fleeing prey, to resolve the outline of a camouflaged animal in hiding, to remember and find again a nutritious berry, root, or herb. Nature rewards the exercise of such skills, which...