| UFOs landing in Morristown?
Aliens from another world? Sort of ... beware of the Bike-tivists, hard-core pedal-pushers who invade Morristown roads en masse on the final Friday of every month. The best way to avoid getting run over, they believe, is by riding in traffic on cold, dark nights in the dead of winter . . . defying bewildered motorists to run them over. "Maybe people will notice us, and then when they see a solitary rider, they will take notice again," and share the road, said Samantha Rothman, a member of the town environmental commission who pedaled Friday with husband Dave and a pack of other hardy souls. We tried to count them all, but our fingers and toes were shivering too violently in the sub-freezing evening air. Samantha is an advocate for bike lanes, bike racks and other advances to make the area friendlier to bicycle commuters.
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Franklin Devine and Jennifer MacDonald are the producers.
SADDAM'S CONFESSIONS - In his first television interview, FBI Agent George Piro tells Scott Pelley how he won the confidence of Saddam Hussein and got the truth out of him in a seven-month interrogation before the Iraqi dictator went to trial and the gallows. Henry Schuster is the producer. THIS IS A DOUBLE- LENGTH SEGMENT.
Sunday, Jan. 20, 2008
60 Minutes will not be seen this Sunday, Jan. 20.
Taking its place will be CBS News Presents: "The Age Of Warming"
Nowhere is the evidence of global warming as striking than near the earths poles. CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley's report brings him to the top and the bottom of the world, where scientists point out the effects of the warming trend.
The Lowdown on Topsoil: It’s Disappearing
While many worry about the potential consequences of atmospheric warming, a few experts are trying to call attention to another global crisis quietly taking place under our feet. Call it the thin brown line. Dirt. On average, the planet is covered with little more than 3 feet of topsoil — the shallow skin of nutrient-rich matter that sustains most of our food and appears to play a critical role in supporting life on Earth. "We're losing more and more of it every day," said David Montgomery, a geologist at the University of Washington. "The estimate is that we are now losing about 1 percent of our topsoil every year to erosion, most of this caused by agriculture." "It's just crazy," fumed John Aeschliman, a fifth-generation farmer who grows wheat and other grains on the Palouse near the tiny town of Almota, just west of Pullman.
MacMillan Wharf: Chapter Twenty-Three
Annie was at the helm of the Whale Center rescue boat as they rounded the tip of Provincetown. She looked to her left and saw the old weather-beaten Coast Guard Station near Race Point Beach. This was nearly the exact spot where yesterday she and Juicy hauled Linda’s body onto the deck of the Explorer. She looked around the boat. Bruce sat next to her, holding his arm in the sling that Annie fashioned out of a T-shirt. Juicy leaned against the stern, staring out at the water. She wondered if he, too, was thinking about what happened. For a moment, their eyes met. From the sad look he gave, she knew instantly that he was. All three were silent as the boat skipped over the waves. When they were off shore of Herring Cove Beach, the large white hull of the Explorer came into view about a mile away.
Cyclists not welcome in Scottsdale neighborhood
Homeowners and bicyclists are squaring off in a gated community on Scottsdale's border with Fountain Hills. Homeowners in Hidden Hills complain that cyclists are using 145th Way, a steep private street at the end of Via Linda, as a training ground where they speed down the long, curving hill en masse and invite accidents. Cyclists say homeowners are exaggerating problems with a minority of riders and reneging on their subdivision's 2000 agreement with Scottsdale to allow a non-motorized connection to Fountain Hills. .
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Whether its the sleekness of stainless steel appliances or the cozy warmth of Shaker-style cabinetry, the 17th annual Kitchen Tour to benefit the Music Hall has something for everyone. Through our board of trustees and Friends of the Music Hall, we hear of people who have neat kitchens, said Mary Horigan, director of corporate and foundation giving for The Music Hall. We want people to walk into these beautiful kitchens and say I can do this. .
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