To hammer the point home, , a 320-page, full-colour broadsheet newspaper; it sold out immediately.

I rushed out of the car and sprinted to the gangway. But the ferry had already begun its leisurely drift into the deep dark empty night of home.

Civil Society Institute President Pam Solo said: "U.S. policymakers and others who assume that a safe, renewable energy future - including an end to reliance on coal-fired electric power and a sharply reduced reliance on nuclear power and natural gas - is impractical and too expensive for the U.S. to achieve are wrong. The truth is that America can and should embrace a workable and cost-effective future that is built on safe, renewable energy. Not only is it feasible and less expensive to do so, but we really have no other choice as a nation, given the concerns about coal emissions, natural gas 'fracking,' and nuclear reactor safety."

In another gruesome incident also in Papua New Guinea, a young mother was burned alive in Feb. 2013 with the townspeople as witnesses. Kepari Leniata, 20, was accused of practicing witchcraft. According to reports, she was tortured by the relatives of a boy believed to have died from her sorcery before burning her alive in Mount Hagen.

This, and its mellow fruitful cousin Autumnwatch, are now biannual television fixtures.