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...pictures of Apollo 11 photos by Armstrong and Aldrin...
...elect politicians to protect our interests. On Monday evening, Nov. 2, London's flamboyant mayor Boris Johnson spontaneously extended that remit to include the bodily protection of a woman he spotted being threatened by teenage hoodlums, one of them wielding an iron bar. Their would-be victim, Franny Armstrong, director of the film The Age of Stupid and founder of the 10:10 campaign to persuade governments, organizations and individuals to cut carbon emissions 10% in 2010, actually cast her ballot for Johnson's rival, Ken Livingstone, in last year's election. But after Johnson's daring rescue, she told...
...London's admiring tabloids, has won over political opponents. His 2008 victory relied not just on the Conservative Party's mobilization of support for their candidate in the city's leafy suburbs but also on traditional Labour supporters who overcame their antipathy to his party to vote for him. Armstrong resisted Johnson at the polls but has succumbed to the gallantry of her rescuer, who cycled after her attackers - a gang of girls - before returning to escort her safely to her front door. (See pictures of Boris Johnson...
...Armstrong has nothing but praise for her savior, describing BoJo as her "knight in a shining bicycle...
...Barack Obama's declaration of swine flu as a national emergency has only added to the clamor, inspiring folks who were on the fence to get vaccinated. "I wasn't really concerned until Obama made the announcement. It put me on alert and got the ball rolling," said Adia Armstrong, 28, who took her two young sons to the Encino clinic to get vaccinated. "Kids are dying and I need to protect my kids." (See TIME's guide on how not to get swine...