Dowbrigade

The coldest instrument ever to fly into space has
unexpectedly lost its liquid helium coolant - rendering it useless. The
mishap occurred just a month after it was launched on a Japanese X-ray
satellite [...]

For more than 160 years the Trappist monks at Saint
Sixtus monastery in Flanders have been producing a rich, dark-brown,
beer renowned for its exceptional flavour and strength. But an unexpected
misfortune has befallen [...]

The Dowbrigade loves using the daily newspaper (usually
the Boston Globe) with his foreign students, be they lawyers or business
students or reprobate party animals.  What a wonderful repository
of language and cultural information! [...]

Rest
in Peace Peter Jennings
Jennings
smoked for about 30 years beginning in the 1950s at age 13. He quit for
20 years, then resumed smoking after the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
Jennings noted that [...]

This afternoon, on our way to the Deluxe
Town Diner (a bit overpriced for dinner, but a great place to ahve
lunch) in H20town, we came upon the strangest marking in front of [...]