Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing. In the book it said: "Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months tha..
The Korean government said yesterday it has distributed 206 additional flight routes to China, based on a June partial open-sky pact between the two nations, evenly to the nation’s two flag carriers. The June agreement called for nearly doubling the number of passenger flights to 401 on 43 routes a week from 204 flights on 33 routes. Cargo flight routes also increased to 36 weekly from 24. Th..
