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Time for cyclists to obey the law?
Congestion, soaring fuel prices and more designated lanes are some of the reasons given for a huge rise in cycling across UK towns and cities. But it has led to rising tension between drivers, pedestrians and those on two wheels. Cyclist Jason Howard was fined £2,200 following the death of a pedestrian he had collided [...]
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The way we were.
Congratulations to all the kids who were born in the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, our baby cribs [...]
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Magna Carta
There is a lot of chatter these days about the loss of our civil liberties and mention is always made of Magna Carta… What are these civil liberties that I am supposed to have lost? The only thing that remotely affects me is no longer being able to donate blood because I have MS. So [...]
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Burma: we are watching and hearing
The world IS watching your struggle and admire people like you who take great risks to let us know what is happening. The UN and the EU are trying to pressure your government with threats of sanctions but China and Russia say that it is not for them to interfere with internal problems. In the [...]
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Supercharged CPN?
Scientists have shown how bacteria in space can gain virulence. “These bugs can sense where they are by changes in their environment. The minute they sense a different environment, they change their genetic machinery so they can survive,” Professor Nickerson said. Space bugs become more dangerous Just wondering about cpn – MS appears in the [...]
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Women
The leader of a US polygamist sect has been convicted of being an accomplice to rape for arranging the marriage of a 14-year-old girl to her older cousin. A court in Utah found Warren Jeffs, a self-proclaimed Mormon prophet, guilty of two counts of encouraging the young girl to have sex against her will. The [...]
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A rant about Chelsea tractors and other things
You don’t need to be an environmentalist to recoil at daft consumers buying bottled water. The price of bottled water is often higher than petrol. Increasingly, bottled water is simply tap water. Shipping water from Switzerland to California is just plain stupid, regardless of whether you like the taste, or mistakenly believe that it’s safer. [...]
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