Cycling in Chinese city is anything but leisurely

A friend sent me a YouTube link to a video called "Insane Cycling — New York City." I clicked on it, hoping to glean a few tips for my own cycling on the anarchic streets of China.

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Baghdad has new security layer: street gates

Even as the Iraqis are removing some of the concrete blast walls that divide Baghdad, authorities have quietly installed about 100 metal gates near a major Shiite shrine — a clear sign of ongoing security concerns as bombings continue.

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Pa. township has all it street signs stolen

It's not just a U2 song anymore. Officials said some thieves turned a western Pennsylvania township into a place "Where the Streets Have No Name." Winfield Township supervisor Glenn Nagle revealed at a meeting Thursday that every one of the township's road signs was stolen in a 48-hour period beginning April 6. The township has since spent about $4,000 replacing the aluminum signs, which cost about $100 each.

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English town names streets after Stones songs

Looking to live on Satisfaction Street? Or Ruby Tuesday Drive?

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Tears of joy, dancing in streets over Obama win

Cheering supporters of Barack Obama gathered in streets across the country Tuesday night to celebrate a moment in history many thought might never come.

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Denver streets reopen; low protest turnout cited

Lower-than-expected turnout for protest marches has prompted authorities to reopen some Denver traffic lanes sooner than planned on the first day of the Democratic National Convention.

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NYC experiments with traffic-free urban playground

In Paris, they call it La Plage, or the beach. And in Bogota, Colombia, it's Ciclovia, or bikeway.

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Italy touts arrests after sending troops in cities

The 400 armed soldiers patrolling Rome didn't seem to bother Renata Zya. They made her feel safe.

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Al-Sadr Stronghold Brims With Confidence

Black banners announcing the deaths of Mahdi Army fighters plaster the streets. Scores of Shiite militiamen gather at the funeral of a fallen comrade as a U.S. helicopter gunship hovers above.

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Racing in the Streets Seems Unstoppable

In a matter of seconds, a lonely stretch of rural road in the middle of the night can become a raceway.

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President Barack Obama's approval rating may be hovering in the 50 percent range, but that doesn't mean America's Commander-in-Chief isn't catching on with new constituents.

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Efren Peñaflorida gives Filipino youth an alternative to gang membership through education. His Dynamic Teen Company's 10,000 members have taught basic reading and writing to 1,500 kids living in the slums His complete story here Pushcart classes help break gang chain

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Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA) plans to introduce a resolution in support of a national "March for Healthcare" in Washington on September 13 to mobilize the supporters of real healthcare reform with the public option, Fattah announced today.

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A San Bernardino man was shot and killed by police after he attacked an officer and pointed a stun gun at him during a traffic stop, San Bernardino police said Tuesday.

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Behind the scenes photos of the 'Streets' video shoot with Rattex in Khayelitsha, Cape Town.

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Bleeding Heart Yard. Houndsditch. Spitalfields. Elephant and Castle. London is filled with oddball place names, from pokey alleyways to grand thoroughfares - and a tourism organisation has launched a monthlong campaign to tell the city's history through its streets.

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After sweeping the streets of Norway's capital Oslo clean of prostitutes last year, city police were a bit shocked to discover that the pros are back and their numbers are just as high as they were before the clean-up effort.

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Dildo, Newfoundland, Canada

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A French pole vaulter has run naked with his pole through Paris and posted the video on the internet in an effort to secure a new sponsorship deal.

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A 22-year-old Bridgeport woman has been charged with endangering her two children after her 1-year-old daughter was found wandering the street in front of their home.

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A "grid of streets" on the seabed at one of the proposed locations of the lost city of Atlantis has been spotted on Google Ocean.

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With that in mind, there are a select few homeless who have a point to advertise themselves in creative and hysterical ways. These homeless are worth checking out, as they somehow find a way to remain chipper and candid, even in the worst of life conditions.

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Excerpt: The City of Miami Police Department has turned over to the Department of Children and Family Services a 2-year-old boy that was found wandering the streets of Miami's Model/Liberty City neighborhood around 4:00 a.m. Friday.

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Boston police said at least three manhole fires in the city's theater district prompted the closure of several Back Bay streets early Monday and forced the Registry of Motor Vehicles to shut down all branch offices and online services because of the resulting power failure in its …

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Steve Levy left Lehman Brothers in 2005 but called his former secretary there on Monday to offer his support. She burst into tears after answering the phone.She wasn't the only one.

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The area is part of the constituency of Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman, who caused controversy in April when she walked around nearby Peckham wearing a stab-proof vest.

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For the past few weeks, I've been travelling around the country listening to people who work with those scary kids who are armed and roaming Britain's streets in large groups that are sometimes, but not always, gangs.

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What is happening to the children of our era? How do parents let their children run around the streets with knives, guns or BB guns at that? No wonder our societies are crumbling.

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Last week more blood was shed on the streets of Britain as the country continued to suffer from an unprecedented rise in stabbings - often fatal. The randomness and frequency of these incidents has been shocking.

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Dozens of cops were pulled off the streets in Brooklyn Saturday night after NYPD officials were tipped off to a plot to shoot patrolmen, police sources said.

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Quite possibly the best street drummers of all time. video.

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Every thing that is not a fact, but you still need to know about Sibiu.

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I live on Seaman, just after Cumming

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Blood pouring from the sewers. Tom Savini must be drooling.

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Microsoft Streets and Trips 2006 with GPS Locator combines the latest version of Microsoft's enhanced customizable trip planning software, Streets and Trips, with a sleek and stylish Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver.

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