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Dublin police to ride three-wheeled scooter
DUBLIN Police will soon be patrolling the city's busiest shopping center on a three-wheeled, clean-energy scooter. The T3 scooter, which has a top speed of 25 mph, looks like a beefier version of a Segway. It runs on batteries that need recharging every 30 miles. The police department now uses patrol cars and bicycles to navigate the shopping center on Hacienda Drive and Dublin Boulevard. The scooter, which was donated by center businesses, will give officers a good option, said Dublin police Lt. Glenn Moon. Patrol cars have more visibility, a good deterrent to bad behavior, but they are harder to use in crowded areas, Moon said, while bikes can be used when officers don't necessarily want to be seen. The motorized scooter is the best of both worlds, he said. "It has the (visible) deterrent of a patrol car, but somewhat of the stealth" of a bike, Moon said.
Vietnam to consume more motorbikes in 2007
HANOI, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam is estimated to consume 2.5 million motorbikes this year, up from 2.2 million units last year, a local industry association said Monday. Foreign-invested motorbike firms in the country, Honda Vietnam, Yamaha Vietnam, Suzuki Vietnam and SYM, recorde d total domestic sales of 174,000 motorbikes in January and 128,000 units in February, posting respective year-on-year rises of 29 percent and 28 percent, according to the latest statistics from the Vietnam Motorbike and Bicycle Association. Vietnam spent 572 million U.S. dollars importing motorbikes, components and spare parts in the first 10 months of this year, up 34.6 percent, according to the country's General Statistics Office. Specifically, it imported 105,000 motorbikes worth 111 million dollars, seeing respective year-on-year surges of 124.2 percent and 87.7 percent.
2008's far-out festivals
Will Lord of the Drains emerge victorious? Will Osama Bin Liner rule again? What better way to celebrate Australia Day on January 26 than cockroach racing? Brisbane's Story Bridge Hotel has been hosting the world championships for 26 years. BYO bug or you can buy one at the venue (``We do all the necessary training,'' says hotel owner Richard Deery.) The event – 14 races, including steeplechases, each with at least 20 contestants – attracts thousands of spectators. Last year almost $10,000 for the Mater Children's Hospital was raised. FEBRUARY Brazil in Rio de Janeiro is recognised as the daddy of all festivals. Brazilians know how to party with style and more than 500,000 foreign visitors also pour in to join this wild four-day samba celebration.
Tribal strife rips Kenya in wake of disputed vote
It's war," said Hudson Chate, a mechanic in Nairobi. "Tribal war." The dubious conclusion of the most fiercely fought election in Kenya's history has pitched the country into chaos. The opposition rejected the results and vowed to inaugurate its leader, Raila Odinga, 62, as "the people's president," which the government warned would be tantamount to a coup. As the riots spread, the government took the first steps toward martial law on Sunday night and banned all live media broadcasts. Western observers said Kenya's election commission ignored undeniable evidence of vote-rigging to keep the government in power. Now, one of the most developed, stable nations in Africa, which has a powerhouse economy with a billion-dollar-a-year tourism industry, has plunged into intense uncertainty, losing its sheen as an exemplary democracy and quickly descending into bloodletting between Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe and Odinga's Luo tribe.
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) Fatah leader elected president of the Palestinian Authority following the death of Yasser Arafat in 2005. Seen as a moderate Palestinian and since the 1970s he has searched for a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Ehud Olmert Became prime minister of Israel in 2006. Olmert offered support to Abbas and the Fatah movement after Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip, possibly opening the door to peace agreements. Ismail Haniyeh Hamas leader and former Palestinian prime minister. Though officially removed from his position, he refuses to acknowledge his loss of power and continues to rule with the support of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza. photo source: Associated Press .
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Most will never win FDA approval. Those outcomes also can be disappointing for patients who believe that Fast Track status gives hope of a promising treatment. And the few time-saving advantages of the designation were available five years before the FDA introduced it. They are still available to drug makers without the designation. Many companies didn't use the Fast Track tag en route to quick approvals for breakthrough drugs that treat life-threatening conditions, such as advanced kidney cancer and a rare form of stomach cancer. Dr. John Jenkins, director of the FDA's Office of New Drugs, acknowledged that the Fast Track designation only gives companies the same access to FDA programs that was already in place when they lobbied Congress for the provision in 1997.
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