| Amgen Tour of CA 2008 - Stage 2 Team Reports
Team CSC had Fabian Cancellara and Gustav Larsson up front during Wednesday's mountain stage in Tour of California. The 152-kilometer third stage was won by Robert Gesink (Rabobank) ahead of overall leader, Levi Leipheimer (Astana). But Cancellara impressively managed to maintain his overall second place. During the final of three very tough climbs Gesink and Leipheimer tore them selves loose from the rest of the front group, but following the decent they had 20 kilometers of flat road until the finish line in San Jos. At one point Leipheimer was almost one and a half minute ahead of the two Team CSC riders, who were working together with the rest of the group of 14, which had gathered behind Gesink and Leipheimer.
Fabian Cancellara - kiss left, kiss right.
minazione e resistenza irakena
The U.S.-led coalition killed 14 road construction workers in airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan because of mistaken intelligence reports, Afghan officials said Wednesday. The engineers and laborers had been contracted by the U.S. military to build a road in mountainous Nuristan, and were sleeping in two tents in Nurgaram when they were killed Monday night, said Sayed Noorullah Jalili, director of the Kabul-based road construction company Amerifa. There were no survivors, he said. "All of our poor workers have been killed," Jalili said. "I don't think the Americans were targeting our people. I'm sure it's the enemy of the Afghans who gave the Americans this wrong information." Nuristan Governor Tamim Nuristani said the coalition conducted air strikes after receiving reports that "the enemy" was in the area, and hit the road construction workers as they were sleeping.
Too much adulation is barely enough
I say the coverage we have of the Oscars is too little, too brief, too fly-by-night. We do not need to cut back these orgies of acclaim, we need to extend them, to spread out in minute detail the glittering panoply of famous, soon-to-be-famous and should-not-have-found-fame-in-the-first-place participants. What, apart from interest rates, rental prices and attaining eternal slenderness, do we obsess about more than celebrity? What water cooler topic fills our office days, our magazine literature and our news and current affairs shows? Famous people. Famous people and what they do and say and wear and buy and decide to marry in a European castle. We might not know what some of our relatives have been up to recently but you'd be hard pressed to find a friend or colleague who doesn't know Nicole Kidman is expecting a baby.
Revealed: the mystery man behind canal safety signs
As we're in a group only the leader will sound their bell."British Waterways has now erected signs restricting cyclists to top speeds of 6mph"Doubt I will use the waterways now. This speed restriction equates to a journey of 12 hours to get to Falkirk Wheel and back (ordinarily 6 hours); a real shame. I've been using them for years with no animosity whatsoever."I would hide behind something to see if people were stopping to look at them."Kudos for your clean-up operation but I doubt anyone wants to be snooped upon in this fashion. It may also lead to some very tricky questioning if caught. .
Engineering Jobs Become Car Makers' New Export
Vietnam is barely on the map of the global auto industry, but that is about to change. Nissan Motor Co. sees the southeast Asian nation as a key piece in a strategy to dramatically reduce the cost of developing cars and to compete in the future with rising auto manufacturers from such countries as China and India. .
Liquor sales create a stir on MacArthur Boulevard
Package liquor sales and outdoor merchandise are the immediate concerns, but C.J. Dart also wonders about long-term prospects in the Springfield neighborhood where she has lived for 60 years. Dart is among residents planning to attend a meeting tonight sponsored by the MacArthur Boulevard Business Association on the proposed $1 million redevelopment of a Mobil Super Pantry at MacArthur and Ash Street. .
On Movies: Austin fete braces for the Philadelphians
Yo, it's a Phillywood moment. In a couple of weeks, indie filmmakers from Philadelphia will be out in force - and out and about in Austin, Texas - at the 15th annual South by Southwest Film Festival. Running March 7 through 15 in front of the storied SXSW Music Festival, this year's screen program boasts hundreds of features and shorts, and more than a few prominent entries from the buzzing Philly scene. Anyone who has ambled around South Street, down the streets of Queen Village and the back alleys of Bella Vista, knows the work of Isaiah Zagar: His mosaics - mirror shards, broken china, clay figurines, wine bottles, tiles and bicycle wheels - adorn the exteriors of scores of houses and businesses, and his studio, on the 1000 block of South, has become a tourist destination. Jeremiah Zagar, Isaiah's son, has made a deeply personal documentary, In a Dream, about his father, his father's art, and his father's marriage to Julia Zagar.
Dropping out in the Bahamas
The islanders' homes are one-story structures built of concrete block to withstand the storms and painted the vibrant colors of the islands — the fiery pink of the sunset, the gaudy yellow of the butterfly fish, the iridescent greens and blues of the Caribbean. When told that U.S. homes bore duller colors, a Bahamian woman replied with a poem recalled from childhood: "Tell me, if you know, the colors of the sea. Where can I find that wondrous dye, and take it home with me?" Since opening in 2001, Tiamo Resorts has garnered a slew of awards for sustainable tourism because of its total solar power, energy efficiency and recycling of nearly everything. But don't call it an "eco-resort" in front of creator Mike Hartman, a self-described "farm boy gone astray" from Indiana who found this special spot with the help of his Jamaican wife, Petagay.
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