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...race motorbikes, pocket bikes are being sold as toys in Wal-Mart and Toys "R" Us as well as in motorcycle stores. Most are made in China and cost between $200 and $400, although souped-up versions can run more than $1,000. They are powered by either two-stroke gas engines or electric motors that can be recharged by plugging into a wall socket. To ride them, you have to squat down with your legs only inches from the ground...
...Edgware Road’s fruity shishas, the hash pipes of Notting Hill, the tandooris of Tower Hamlet, the boerewor shops of Southfields. The world to which London extended itself for centuries has flocked to London. In 1888, Henry James wrote that “It is a real stroke of luck for a particular country that the capital of the human race happens to be British. Surely every other people would have it theirs if they could.” The British still have it, except now more than ever, “British” doesn?...
...record was on the line, and we pulled through, as we have done all season,” senior stroke Kip McDaniel said...
...Cheryl Hines of Curb Your Enthusiasm. But it may yet be undermined by Horn's condition. Last month, NBC previewed the show in New York City for advertising executives, playing a video greeting from Horn, his first public appearance since the mauling. The effects of his attack, and a stroke he suffered after it, were apparent, says Kristi Argyilan, media director of the advertising firm Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos. "They were trying to say, 'Look he's O.K.,' and he's not," she says. "He's got a long road ahead of him yet. You've got that hanging over...
...allowing the terrorists to flee. And worries about collusion between al-Qaeda and sympathizers in the security forces are rising. The House of Saud itself is riven with factions. Progress on critical issues - security, democracy, women's rights - has been hampered for close to a decade, since a stroke left King Fahd unable to govern. The government's weak response to the Khobar attack, says a Western analyst in Saudi Arabia, is in part the result of rivalries among the senior princes who control the army, national guard and police - "here you are dealing with different princely fiefdoms," he says...