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A Longview podiatrist who was charged with stealing about $55,000 worth of expensive racing bikes in Washington, Oregon and Utah has been found dead. According to a Longview police report, Jacob J. Bos hanged himself in his room on the seventh floor of St. John Medical Center at Longview. Two certified nurses' assistants found his body Saturday morning. Bos, 35, was out on bail while awaiting trial in Cowlitz County Superior Court on nine counts of first-degree possession of stolen property and three counts of trafficking in stolen property. He was admitted to St. John Medical Center on Feb. 7. Bos was suspected of visiting bicycle shops and taking expensive bikes out for test rides but never returning them. A Tacoma shop might have lost a $4,500 bike to the scheme. The Associated Press .
Editorial: Safety net let go of New Cassel kids
The resulting investigations and incriminations will further pinpoint what went wrong and perhaps answer the question of whether this tragic killing of three young children by a mentally unstable mother could have been prevented.
Brewer knew she was required to be in Family Court on Monday, the result of a complaint filed by the father of her two sons over her refusal to allow him to visit them. The court, which had been seeking more sophisticated drug testing of Brewer after her initial tests were negative, had warned her in January to allow the father visitation.
"If I find out ... that did not occur, we will bring you in very quickly and the Court will have to make some tough decisions. Do you understand that?" asked the judge. "Okay," she replied.
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Return of the Native
It wasnt so much the final product that inspired him as the act of creating it. Shady graduated from the Lego set to household appliances, becoming a handyman around the house. By his teens, Shady dreamed of being an electrical engineer when he grew up. But a 76 percent on his thanaweya amma exam in 1993 doomed him to the faculty of commerce, English section, at Cairo University. We are victims of an educational system that virtually assigns careers depending on how well you can memorize and spit back textbooks during exam time, he claims. But Shady is one of those people who dont mind playing the hand they are dealt and making the most of it. After graduation, he landed a cushy job as an analyst in a large financial consulting firm. He was soon disillusioned, however, complaining of being treated as a second-class employee by a demotivating and abusive boss who seemed to only respect made in the West degrees.
Frustrated fliers making tracks to Europe's trains
Travelers in Europe first started to see rail in a new light in 1994 with the launch of London-Paris Eurostar trains through the Channel tunnel. The journey from Britain to France took just under three hours on trains that coasted along as quietly as a Mercedes sedan. In November, that journey became even shorter when service in London shifted from Waterloo International Station to St. Pancras. The journey from London to Paris now takes only two hours and 15 minutes, while a trip from Brussels, Belgium, to London will take less than two hours. Eurostar officials believe the quicker trips, on trains traveling at speeds of up to 186 mph, will herald a 20 percent rise in the number of riders by 2010. Already, the number of passengers on Eurostar was up by 5 percent in the first six months of 2007 compared to the same period in 2006.
MTB News and Notes: A conversation with Greg Minnaar; New power at ...
Minnaar still managed to give a post-race interview, despite the pain. Then, in the off-season, Minnaar learned that Honda was ending its sponsorship of the G Cross-Honda team, the squad Minnaar has led since 2005. Minnaar's understudy, teammate Matti Lehikoinen, inked a deal to lead Intense Cycle's team, but Minnaar remained without a team through much of the fall. Salvation came from the California-based Santa Cruz Syndicate team — for 2008, Minnaar will ride alongside the hard charging, hard drinking duo of Steve Peat and Nathan Rennie. VeloNews caught Minnaar on the phone as he was heading into a house party near his home in Pietermaritzburg. .
Obama's women reveal his secret
America is the spirit of creative destruction, selecting immigrants willing to turn their back on the tragedy of their own failing culture in return for a new start. Its creative success is so enormous that its global influence hastens the decline of other cultures. For those on the destruction side of the trade, America is a monster. Between half and nine-tenths of the world's 6,700 spoken languages will become extinct in the next century, and the anguish of dying peoples rises up in a global cry of despair. Some of those who listen to this cry become anthropologists, the curators of soon-to-be extinct cultures; anthropologists who really identify with their subjects marry them. Obama's mother, the University of Hawaii anthropologist Ann Dunham, did so twice.
Obama profiles Americans the way anthropologists interact with primitive peoples.
Students intern for Southeast Como
With the help of an internship at the Southeast Como Improvement Association, Juetten said she is working on projects for the community while fulfilling a credit for her major. The University's urban studies program requires students to intern before graduating, said Paula Pentel, urban studies coordinator of undergraduate advising. "It's designed to help students curious about cities put together a degree program that meets their interest," she said. If a student doesn't like an internship, said Pentel, he or she can still learn from it. "They may learn through this that it does or doesn't fit for their own personal values and for their own skill sets," Pentel said. The SECIA has three interns this semester and has had consistent help from interns in the University's urban studies department since 2001, said James De Sota, Southeast Como neighborhood coordinator.
Rice Testifies Before the House Judiciary Committee on Mideast Policy
I will say that these are smuggling routes that have been there for many, many years. And we know that it is not easy to cut them off. But I was very clear with the Egyptians that what ever the challenges and the difficulties of cutting off smuggling routes, they had to do more and they had to do more urgently. LANTOS: Madam Secretary, let me turn to the upcoming Annapolis conference. I am very supportive of the idea of the conference. And I certainly want the conference to succeed to the maximum possible extent. But there are very thoughtful and serious people who are raising questions about the timing of this conference. Both sides are weak in some ways, not even in control of the area they presumably are speaking for. Abu Mazen has tenuous control of the West Bank, no control of Gaza.
Pizza of the Week: Pizzeria Picco
Bruce Hill wasn't interested in pizza until he took over the Larkspur space next to his restaurant. He decided it would make a perfect pizza place, and became obsessed with finding the best. His research culminated in what I think is one of Bay Area's top wood-fired, thin-crust pizzas. Because of the location and the constant parade of bike riders, all the pies are named after bicycles. The stylish interior is dominated by the wood oven and wine on the back wall that's available for retail sale. Whatever you do, don't pass up the soft-serve ice cream for dessert: It's drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with sea salt. Style: Neapolitan. Size: About 13 inches ($9.75-$14.50). Oven: Wood-fired oven that fires the pizza at 850-900 degrees for less than 2 minutes.
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