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...launched a crusade to bar cell phone use while driving. In a debate complicated by high-powered lobbyists and murky data, Pena became the one clear voice. In 18 months she has testified before Congress and five state and local legislatures. Her story has helped motivate 10 counties to outlaw the use of handheld phones in cars. Last year 20 states considered bills outlawing or limiting phone use behind the wheel, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. This year New York and Rhode Island look poised to pass such restrictions into...
RETURNED. RONALD BIGGS, 71, celebrated British fugitive who helped execute "the Great Train Robbery," heisting [pound]7 million (more than $40 million today) from a Glasgow-to-London mail train in 1963; from Rio de Janeiro to the Belmarsh prison in London. Strokes have weakened the once fun-loving outlaw. Though many suspect that he turned himself in to seek medical care in prison, he insists all he wants is a pint in a pub before he dies...
...BRITAIN Human Clones Ban Britain became the first country to announce a ban on human reproductive cloning. Health Secretary Alan Milburn said the government would enact legislation within months to outlaw the practice, but would dedicate more funding to other genetic research. Human cloning is already banned by the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority, which has the power to grant licenses, but the new move would create a permanent statutory ban. Milburn said the government would invest another $43 million in genetic screening, enabling Britain to offer free testing to women with an inherited risk of breast cancer...
...Scoop) Nisker, a legendary local radio commentator whose smooth voice has been practically synonymous with Bay Area counterculture for 30 years. "Ever since its inception, San Francisco has been a place where adventurers came, the last outpost of the continent, where you could experience a sense of rugged, outlaw freedom. Now it feels like a theme park of itself--the San Francisco Experience...
Since Beat first stepped onto a striptease stage to perform a comedy routine in 1972, he has projected this almost split personality. He has been both the archetypal Japanese macho man?the rebel, the outlaw, the yakuza?while also playing the subversive clown prince version of all those cherished tough guys. Those phoned-in TV appearances are just the flip side of the stylized cinematic tough guy. Beat plays off the public's awareness of who he is. That farcical gangster on the set of low-budget TV shows is all the more lovable because he's the deadly gangster...