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Tulips on the island at McIntire Road and Market Street, photographed March 27, are about done. They peaked last week-- about three weeks ahead of schedule, according to local experts.

Early spring: What's wrong with this picture?

Related item Jan 12: Winter jasmine jumps out early A typical April in Central Virginia: Tulips are abloom. So are redbuds, cherries, and dogwoods. Grass is a vivid green after the winter's brown, and trees are a paler, spring green as they start to get their leaves. The
UVA graduate student Jon Walter, who grew up playing hockey in Philadelphia, gets his old stick signed by the creator of the so-called hockey stick graph, Michael Mann, on January 17.

The hockey stick 'graph

You've heard of the hockey stick graph. Well, how about the hockey stick autograph?
Mann signed copies of Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming.

Mann act: 'Hockey stick' scientist returns to UVA

"It's not wrong to be wrong," says Michael Mann, author of the famous "hockey stick graph," the controversial image of a recent spike in global temperatures.

Falling asleep? What keeps us in bed at night?

Q. Many people are restless sleepers, real tossers and turners, but few awaken on the floor. So what keeps us from falling out of bed at night while we sleep?—M. Mouse
We could learn a lot from the Seabees

Rome burning? Then it's time for the impossible

Economist M. Scott Taylor and actress Emily Blunt– or rather the character she plays in The Adjustment Bureau– are peas in a pod. Recently, while The Adjustment Bureau was arriving in Charlottesville theaters, Calgary-based Taylor was addressing a crammed Darden Busines

Peatross decides: Judge pens halt to Cuccinelli inquest

Peatross' ruling leaves Cucinelli right to refile. HOOK GRAPHIC WITH DAN KACHUR PHOTO The controversial "climategate" inquest by Virginia Attorney General Ke

Standing by Mann: Small but punchy protest blasts Cuccinelli's 'climategate' inquest

Protest organizer Ryan McElveen, who enters a master's program at Columbia this fall, meets the press. PHOTO BY

Pelt Michaels? Climategate includes swipe at Pat

One scientist was so irked by global warming skeptic Pat Michaels that he ill-advisedly jotted an email expressing
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