Tortoise

Do you know? What is the difference between a turtle and a tortoise? Answer: Turtles usually have webbed toes. Tortoises don't. Learn more! Visit The Baltimore Zoo to meet turtles and tortoises up close. Read "All About Turtles" by Jim Arnosky. 1. Turtles are endangered because of poaching and habitat loss. 2. A sea turtle can move as fast in water as a person running on land!

Washington Bullets Chris Webber, Juwan Howard, Calbert Cheaney and Mitchell Butler will celebrate the Stay in School Jam with more than 6,500 elementary students from Baltimore City, Baltimore County and Howard County at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Baltimore Arena.There will be a performance of "The Tortoise and the Hare" by an acting troupe from Library Theatre and musical entertainment by LaFace singer Usher. The program is a celebration of a four-month reading incentive project, "Pick and Roll," in which students who had read five books outside the classroom between November and March were rewarded with two tickets to a Bullets home game.

CAPE PULMO, Mexico -- Like wow.Like, I mean, like, the eclipse is coming here to Baja California. And the Green Tortoise is serving a sushi lunch to the remnants of the '60s.The Green Tortoise is a 1958 General Motors transit bus turned into a rolling dormitory for 30 survivors of the Kool-Aid-acid test.But the jargon of the era has been replaced by words such as syzygy, open star clusters, totality, Beads of Bailey.Where once "los hippies" of the Green Tortoise entered the universe through clouds of marijuana smoke, now they are here to groove on a natural thing.

25 years ago The Hampstead City Council acted on a state-approved parking plan, set a meeting to adopt the zoning map, "clustered" mailboxes and accepted a $72,525 budget requiring no tax increase. -- The Carroll Record, May 18, 1972.50 years ago No fire to occur in this city for many years brought out so many excited citizens as the fire Sunday morning when the former blacksmith shop and contents consisting of oil, greases, etc., owned by W. H. Davis Co., who rented the building to the Farmers Supply Co., was completely destroyed from some unknown cause.

I read a book. It's called "The Bear," by Raymond Briggs. I like this book because it has very exciting details and I also like how the author drew and colored the pictures."

The Andersen family's turtles are cold-blooded competitors. Speedy, a red-nosed slider, won the first heat by a red nose yesterday at the 66th annual Chesapeake Turtle Derby in Patterson Park. The next race went to the Bel Air family's other slider, Claude. "One of them always wins," Charlie Andersen said of the turtles. "It's almost embarrassing. We've got probably 10 trophies from turtle races at our house."

When we "glimpsed" Seles Gadson at the Towson Farmers Market, the speech pathologist and Mary Kay leadership development trainee said her look that day was "Michelle Obama; the belt with the sweater. But, generally my style is anything that will create a conversation." The 28-year-old Woodlawn resident certainly got us talking, in her black cardigan Forever 21 vest over a black cotton tank from Nordstrom, belted with a wide black patent leather belt. It was also from Forever 21, as were her black pinstripe pencil skirt, crystal filigree ring and black patent leather doctors bag. Her black patent flat thong Blue Suede Shoes sandals and tortoise shell sunglasses were Filene's Basement finds.

NEW YORK The latest sunglasses reflect a nostalgia for the fashions of the 1960s. Frames and lens tints recall those that were popular then, designers and retailers say."Sunglasses are the key accessory this season, used like jewelry to complete a '60s look," said Andrew Basile, the fashion director of Bergdorf Goodman. "The biggest trend is the return to the 'Jackie O' look, to go with those Jackie-style classic sleeveless shift dresses that predominate in spring inventories."For men, imitation tortoise-shell frames are combined with plastics and metals in classic round '60s-inspired frames.

Does Maryland's men's team have any shot of getting into the NCAA basketball tournament? If the Terps win their last two conference games and at least one in the ACC tournament, they will still be throwing themselves on the mercy of the selection committee. Jim Kirby Columbia I really don't think they belong in the NIT, much less the NCAA tournament. Individuals are trying to play basketball without the team concept. Bill Hanna Whiteford Definitely not. This is one tortoise that cannot outrun the other NCAA hares.

Today is World Turtle Day, created by the animal-lovers at American Tortoise Rescue as a day to celebrate and protect turtles and their habitats. As someone who lives with one turtle (a box turtle named Yertle) and is about to inherit a red-slider this weekend, I feel compelled to weigh in on the idea of turtles as pets. Here's what I think: Turtles should not be pets. Yes, you may think, as I once did, that a little land turtle is a nice, low-maintenance friend for your child.