An environmental group dedicated to protecting and restoring the Chesapeake Bay is launching a campaign -- Cyclist for the Bay -- to get people out of their cars and onto their bikes. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is asking people to pledge to use their bicycles whenever possible, bike to work at least once a week, and spread the word about the need to protect the bay. The Chesapeake Bay on the East Coast is one of the ...

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Fill'er up: CARPE DIEM: $1.45 Gas in Kansas City! Stuff White People Like: Black Music that Black People Don't Listen to Anymore BrothersJudd Blog: WHEN ARE THEY CARBON-DATING THE SHROUD OF DARWIN?: "If you didn't have the relics people might not believe the Prophet had existed." NASA and Google Successfully Test Deep Space Internet @ Universe Today In October, America bought nothing and built nothing.Housing Starts at Record Low @ Calculated Risk. And, in the same month, we became ...

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Content: A Kingdom for KeflingsPrice: 800 Microsoft PointsAvailability: All Xbox LIVE regionsDash Text: [ESRB: E (EVERYONE) MILD CARTOON VIOLENCE] Xbox LIVE Multiplayer 2-4, HD (High Definition). Unlock the full version of A Kingdom for Keflings for even more homes, buildings, and workshops to build! Join up to three of your friends via Xbox LIVE to cooperatively construct the kingdom of your dreams. The full version of A Kingdom for Keflings includes achievements to earn, more ...

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It looks like Ted Stevens' political career has finally come to an end. Congratulations to Senator-elect Mark Begich, who will represent the Last Frontier on Capitol Hill for the next six years:The Democratic Anchorage mayor widened his lead to 3,724 votes in today's counting of absentee and questioned ballots. The only votes left to count are approximately 2,500 special absentees from people living outside the U.S. or in remote parts of Alaska with no polling ...

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Sometimes we stop to think--for instance while waiting to hear more about the non-credible bomb-threat that's halted the Bremerton ferry run this afternoon--about Bainbridge Island. Which is always the way. Bremerton forever gets the short end of the stick. So in contrast to hours of snarled ferry traffic, the news out of Bainbridge has to do with this electric car, the ECH, that Bob Fraik has built. It tops out, for now, at 35 mph, and ...

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The scale of this crime--six heisted parking meters!--is what impresses us. Also the location, beneath the Viaduct, is kinda noir. We can imagine a lot of deals going down in the shadows. Not usually involving parking meters, though. Someone cut the bolts off the bottom of the new electronic parking meters, say the police, who were notified when their parking meters stopped reporting electronically for duty. The thieves didn't get much besides change--and possibly credit card ...

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