| Trek Recalls 49,000 Girls Bikes
The recalled product is the Trek MT220 girls bicycles model years 2005, 2006 and 2007. The model name is printed on the frame of the bicycle. Model year 2008 bicycles are not included in the recall. The bikes, manufactured in China and Taiwan, were sold for about $300 at authorized Trek dealers nationwide from April 2004 through June 2007, CBS station WFOR-TV in Miami reports. Consumers can return the bike to a Trek dealer for a free replacement MT220 girls bicycle or a $100 discount on a different size Trek bicycle. For more information, contact Trek at (800) 373-4594. For additional information, consumers can contact Trek at (800) 373-4594 between 9 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, and between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.ET Saturday, or visit the Trek BikesWeb site. (© MMVIII, CBS Broadcasting Inc.
Tribal strife rips Kenya in wake of disputed vote
It's war," said Hudson Chate, a mechanic in Nairobi. "Tribal war." The dubious conclusion of the most fiercely fought election in Kenya's history has pitched the country into chaos. The opposition rejected the results and vowed to inaugurate its leader, Raila Odinga, 62, as "the people's president," which the government warned would be tantamount to a coup. As the riots spread, the government took the first steps toward martial law on Sunday night and banned all live media broadcasts. Western observers said Kenya's election commission ignored undeniable evidence of vote-rigging to keep the government in power. Now, one of the most developed, stable nations in Africa, which has a powerhouse economy with a billion-dollar-a-year tourism industry, has plunged into intense uncertainty, losing its sheen as an exemplary democracy and quickly descending into bloodletting between Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe and Odinga's Luo tribe.
Ticket to ride: We may be knee-deep in snow (and cold) but that doesn ...
Tom Kunicki's goal for himself this year is to bike as much as he can and to drive as little as possible. "This year I just said I'm going to bike all year," said the 34-year-old resident of Madison who works as a software engineer in Fitchburg. He's off to a good start, putting in 380 miles in January. His commute to work from his residence on Regent Street is easy enough. It 's a 10-mile ride that isn 't hilly and is partly on the Southwest Bike Path and the Capital City Trail. .
Researchers claim link between tsunamis and outer space
I mean, that sounds quite alarmist.
TED BRYANT: There I was sitting on Aceh, in Indonesia, Boxing Day at eight o'clock in the morning and if you told me a tsunami was going to come in, I would never have believed you.
And certainly if I was on Phuket in Thailand, I would have committed you to an insane asylum. If you wait long enough, a tsunami will come into any coastline of the ocean.
MARK COLVIN: Now, it's fair to say that the theories of the Holocene Impact working group are not universally accepted. How much work do you think you still have to do to get full scientific acceptance?
TED BRYANT: It'll be deadly. I'll be dead before the scientific community accepts what we believe. That's the nature of science, I mean, it's not stirring stuff out there, with people coming up with ideas and everybody gone...
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A bereaved nurse who injected a friend's baby girl with an overdose of ...
Off-duty nurse Veronica Duncan administered the jab to the four-month-old child after she lost her own baby daughter. Sentencing her at the High Court in Edinburgh today, temporary judge Roger Craik QC placed her on three years' probation with several conditions, saying he acknowledged she had been suffering from an "abnormal grief". .
Movie Talk
Well, there's a cameo at the end from Vin Diesel. And, I mean, that's the least he can do, since the original "Fast and the Furious" launched the career he managed to deep-six in record time. Turning up in this sequel feels like Vin's way of saying, "Please forgive me for 'The Chronicles of Riddick' and 'A Man Apart' and 'xXx' and 'The Pacifier,' and especially for wearing a dead cat on my head and trying to 'act' in that courtroom flick Find Me Guilty'" — am I right? Permalink | | Categories: The 'B' Movie King Another reason to be proud if you're Italian By Alan Smithee | Friday, June 16, 2006, 07:17 AM The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Dear Mr. Smithee, Fifteen years ago, when I was but a young teen, my friends and I watched an old horror movie.
His daydreams inspire a bright idea
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gerardo Ramos is an unlikely inventor. His lab, if you can call it that, is the transmission shop he runs in Sacramento, Calif., tucked behind a hamburger stand.
Most days, it's just him in the shop, and the cars that need fixing.
Ramos, 52, built his first car engine when he was 11, and transmissions have been part of his life the better part of 35 years.
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Might Some Women Boycott Elections if Hillary Loses the Nomination?
The thought of this sort of thing happening has never even crossed my mind. I can't imagine women would be so shallow (excluding, of course, a handfull of radicals out there who might indeed "boycott," but these are called "statistical outliers"). It's not as if Obama was being imposed upon them by the Taliban. If you're going to ask this question, then I'm afraid you have to pose the following question as well: "Might Some African-Americans Boycott Elections if Barack Loses the Nomination?" .
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