| A slice of green in the burbs
CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Ohio--The first brown highway sign said I could exit Interstate Highway 77 at Rockside Road and there Id find a park.
That hardly seemed possible. I was no more than 10 minutes outside Clevelands Hopkins International Airport with the citys skyline in the rearview mirror. I was driving through a land filled with office plazas, industrial parks and hotels that specialize in uniformity. It was a land of gas-station clusters, franchise food drive-ins and a class of strip mall even Starbucks might ignore.
Yet, in such a setting, caffeine might be the only answer. Or a park. I decided to believe the sign and see if I could slip into something more bucolic.
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Pats' Welker turns tables on doubters
What do you do for a living?" he's asked. "I play for the Dolphins," Welker tells him. Welker knows the guy doesn't believe this because he gets this look on his face Welker has seen dozens of times. Coaches have had it, teammates have had it, almost everyone has had it. It's a look that tells you they don't believe Welker belongs. Just look at him. He's 5-9 and 185 pounds. NFL players are supposed to look like Junior Seau and Randy Moss. NFL players don't look like Welker. By the way, he's not especially fast, either. Miami vise So this stranger says what others think but don't say. "No wonder the Dolphins stink," he says. Wes Welker's life, Scene 2. We take you to a bar in South Beach where Welker has struck up a conversation with a beautiful woman.
Ottawa fires nuclear safety commission head
The federal government has fired the head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, days after she publicly accused Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn of interfering with the independence of the arm's-length watchdog. The former head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Linda Keen, says she will appear at a parliamentary committee about the reactor closure on Wednesday.(CBC) "The president was aware of the importance of maintaining Canada's and the world's supply of medical isotopes," said the statement from Lunn's office. "However, given the growing crisis, she did not demonstrate the leadership expected of the president under the existing legislative provisions of the Nuclear Safety and Control Act to put the commission in a position to address the situation in a timely fashion." Lunn and Keen have been at odds since the 50-year-old Chalk River nuclear reactor was shut down in November, prompting a worldwide shortage of medical isotopes.
Max & David's
This was a Let-There-Be-Meat! slice of flesh, a grilled bone-in slab of such biblical proportions that this Turkish-spiced chop perfumed the entire table with its savor when it landed. Thick and tender, seasoned with an exotic Baharat rub of cumin, cinnamon, and clove, this beef was splendid by any standard. But considering it was glatt kosher - meeting the strictest standard of Jewish dietary laws - I can see why this contemporary eatery by Robin and Steven Katz has become the talk of Elkins Park since it opened in a new strip mall in October. The other kosher options around Philadelphia are truly dismal and few, with the exception of casual Israeli falafel and shawarma shops, like those operated under the Mama's name. Only four restaurants in the entire region are approved by the orthodox rabbinate to serve meat.
New fitness center opens in Milledgeville
Those concerned about their fitness and health now have an additional opportunity to get into shape in the Milledgeville area. New fitness center opens in Milledgeville Alexander Cain The Union-Recorder Those concerned about their fitness and health now have an additional opportunity to get into shape in the Milledgeville area. .
Q&A on Florida primaries: Beauty contest and a battle
A: Both Republicans and Democrats will go to the polls on Tuesday, Jan. 29. Florida's legislators passed a bill last spring that moved the state's primaries before the Feb. 5 date the national parties set for states, other than those specifically approved for early primaries and caucuses, to begin voting. .
Paris Hilton delights crowd at area outlet mall
When Paris Hilton walked into the Franklin Mills mall about 6:30 p.m. the screams of the fans of the woman who rose from obscenely wealthy heiress to B-movie actress could be heard throughout the building. More than 1,000 people gathered to watch her peddle for her latest grasp at publicity. Surrounded by an entourage of police, security guards and functionaries, Hilton strutted into the mall through a side entrance near the movie theater and onto a stage. I love Philadelphia, she said over the screams. You're all hotties (pause) so (pause) it's hot. Hilton appears in the film "The Hottie and the Nottie, which is the story of a man who follows his love interest Hilton as the hottie to L.A. only to develop feelings for her best friend, the nottie, according to the Internet Movie Database.
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