On New Year’s Day, Freddy Gonzales and Valerie McDyer of Somerville set out in a convoy of roughly 70 teams traversing India in a hot, dusty, sweaty, perilous, two-week charity race known as the Rickshaw Run. They left Jaisalmer and after 3,000 miles arrived safely 12 days later in Cochin.
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VANCOUVER — Not all games are equal. Only the points are the same.The Vancouver Canucks edged the Edmonton Oilers 3-2 in a shootout last Tuesday. Tonight, they play the Chicago Blackhawks. Only in the standings are those games worth the same.The National Hockey League season is an 82-game bus tour – around the world in 182 days. But there are games along the way where you stop, get off the bus ...
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These inventions in the fields of finance, healthcare, technology, food and energy have greatly improved our standard of living.
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Hipsters packed into the back room of a bar in Berlin have their hands full, beers in one hand and something else in the other. One German man cradles a loaf of dark brown bread. A Turkish woman carries an amulet to protect against the evil eye. Jean-Ulrike Desert, a Haitian-American, pulls out a small jar filled with a brown spice. “It’s called djondjon,” he said. “Djondjon being an ...
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# billlee The folks at The Golden Sombrero alerted us to this wonderful piece of baseball history : a 1980 High Times interview with pitcher Bill "Spaceman" Lee in which Lee holds forth on drugs, Bowie Kuhn, race, reincarnation, drugs, drug use, drug abuse, which drugs Expos fans threw to him in tribute, eating out Linda Ronstadt, drugs, steroids, and Bambi. We've reprinted Ken Kelly's entire ...
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Southern Siskiyou County, Calif. — Wed., Feb. 1 • Library book club -- A Library Book Club for youth ages 10 and older meets each Wednesday from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. at the Mount Shasta Library, 515 E. Alma Street. Enjoy, appreciate, explore stories, poems, music, art and literature.
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Siskiyou County, Calif. — Wed., Jan. 25 • Immunization clinic -- Siskiyou County Public Health immunization clinic, 8 a.m. to noon, 810 S. Main Street, Yreka. Flu products available for $9 for children and adults; in addition to routine immunizations.
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JOHNSTOWN - The Fulton County Sheriff's Department's fire-damaged boat was discarded at the county landfill late last yea.
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After a crazy weekend with reports of players discussing whether or not Pittsburgh needed an interim captain and more criticisms that the organization doesn't update his injury often enough, the Penguins announced Sidney Crosby is going back to see Professor Ted Carrick.
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Southern Siskiyou County, Calif. — Wed., Jan. 18 New mom’s support -- Group meets on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday monthly from 10 a.m. to noon at Mount Shasta Community Resource Center, 109 E. Lake Street. Share challenges, questions and celebrations with new moms. Dads are welcome. Info: 926-1400.
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