SUN DEFEATS FEVER -- Taj McWilliams-Franklin scored 24 points to lead the Connecticut Sun past the host Indiana Fever, 73-68, last night in Game 1 of the W.N.B.A.'s Eastern Conference finals.
As a star exhausts its hydrogen, astronomers say, it swells into a red giant, expanding, as would be the case with the Sun, past the orbit of Earth, before collapsing into a white dwarf.
A week on from the council meeting, many of the people strolling in the afternoon sun past the town's stately, heritage-listed post office and opulent Alexandra Fountain seem embarrassed by the attention Bendigo has received.
For the teachers, many of whom are in their first classroom jobs, they are an exploratory path carved under pouring rain and baking sun; past halal butchers, check-cashing joints and car repair shops; in dark, crammed apartments adorned by statues of the Virgin Mary or colorful prayer rugs.
He leads us through fishing villages where bamboo tables groan under the weight of silvery sardine-like usipa drying in the sun, past a primary school with desks moulded out of the earth floor, through fields of banana and cassava plants with kids running behind us.
I strolled back out into the sun, past the temple's peaked, glittering roof and the golden and white chedis gleaming under the blue sky with my next stop already in mind: I had to figure out how to make some of these things.
