The James Logan Courier

McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

The clothes a bicyclist wears when out for a nighttime ride may reduce the chance of an unwelcome encounter with an automobile. In other words, the more reflective clothing a rider wears, the better.

Most accidents between motorists and bicyclists at night usually occur because car drivers are unable to see a biker before it's too late. To help reduce the chance of a nighttime biking accident, cyclists should always consider the following before going out for a ride:

— Make sure the bike has the reflectors required on all new bicycles. Each bike should have front and rear reflectors, pedal reflectors, and side rim or wheel reflectors. Use front and rear lights to help make your bicycle more noticeable to cars at night. Small battery-operated lamps strapped to your legs also help.

By Karen Herzog
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)

In survey after survey, we say we want to eat healthful foods, but then what do we do?

We eat whatever we want, hoping to somehow avoid the consequences of excess calories, sugar and fat in our favorite treats.

Always eager to give American consumers what they want, the food industry thought, why not make all unhealthful foods "healthy" by adding assorted herbs and nutrients?

By John W. Cox
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)


MIAMI — "My `Undisclosed Medical Condition' Didn't Get Me Out of Jail."

"Don't Hassle the Hoff."

"I was drunk & bald way before Britney."

Those are just a few slogans found in the increasingly popular novelty T-shirt industry that parodies politics, pop culture and everything else imaginable.

By Veronica Brown, Courier Staff Writer

Graduation is an emotional time for parents, teachers and especially the graduating students. It marks a new beginning fraught with fear and hope, and the end of a time peppered with joy and disappointment. It sparked reflection among seniors interviewed by The Courier.

“I am very happy with how I did academically. I got into the college I wanted, and I’m satisfied with how I performed in forensics," said Kyle Curson, who's graduation means he'll no longer attend school with his mother, art teacher Julie Curson, "But, as always, with academic success often comes social disappointment. I mean don’t get me wrong, I have my fair share of close friends, but I feel like I didn’t have enough fun, that my love life sucked, and that I haven’t really discovered myself yet. ” Curson expects to spend the next four years at UCLA.

By Ruth Padawer
The Record (Hackensack N.J.) (MCT)

HACKENSACK, N.J. — Dissection, that staple of high school biology class, is slowly going the way of the slide rule, yielding to changes in technology, values, funding and science itself.

"Biology has changed a lot," said Edward Nartowitz, science supervisor at Ridgewood High School. "There was a time when biology was mostly descriptive, so most of what you did was to dissect plants and animals. No more."