| Kaduce races to the finish
Kaduce is now in the final leg of the 2008 Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race, an over 1,000 mile trek from Fairbanks, Alaska to Whitehorse, Yukon in Canada.He started Saturday and will likely finish within the next few days.Anxiously keeping up with the race is his mother, Meg Thorton of Chippewa Falls."I'm on my Internet constantly," she said. "I get up in the middle of the night to check the Internet."Although Kaduce's finished the race twice before, Thorton has concerns. There are long legs in the races where racers may not reach a checkpoint for hours at a time, and sledding can be dangerous.One woman had to quit the race Tuesday because of a knee injury."A mother always worries about her kids," she said.A love for the unusualDog sledding wasn't always a dream of Kaduce's.He grew up loving dogs and the outdoors, but he had never been exposed to the sport, which is popular in Alaska and Canada.But Thorton wasn't shocked when she heard her son had started racing."It didn't surprise me really," Thorton said.
Sell is back with eyes on Beijing
On Jan. 27, Sell set a course record, winning the ING Miami Half Marathon in 1:03:46. For Sell, the race brought a nice change of pace from his usual training regimen in Rochester Hills. "We haven't had a day over 35 degrees since Christmas, and the other day when we did some speed work it was 7 degrees," he said this week. Wednesday, "we got about four inches of freezing sleet. It took me an hour to shovel the pure slush off of my driveway — we're getting hammered up here." It's the Hansons-Brooks team that keeps Sell in the frozen north. "I've been with the team around seven years, and there's no magic formula. ... It's just getting a dozen guys together that were all No. 1 in college, and they all push each other. We're a bunch of bullheaded guys that don't want to lose.
UK: Police on Jersey enter bricked-up room at suspect children's home
Police on the island of Jersey have broken into a bricked-up room at a former children's home which is the focus of a child abuse investigation. Police have already found a child's skull buried on the grounds of the former Haut de la Garenne home. Jersey's deputy police chief, Lenny Harper, says that a dog trained to search for human remains reacted strongly inside the room but there was no immediate indication why. More than 100 people who lived in the home for orphaned or abandoned children have come forward to say they were abused in what authorities believe could be one of Britain's worst child care scandals. Harper said breaching the wall on Wednesday was only the start of a long investigation. .
Responding to the Jack Lynch Non-Story
Facts do not equal truth, and if you want to argue the position that they do, you will likely feel as if you won, but truth will have lost. It is a fact that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and we can make all sorts of observations about this and make claims such as "the sun rotates around the earth" or "we are the center of the universe." More exploration, however, tells us that not only does the earth actually rotate around the sun, but the illusion of the sun's rotation originates with our planet spinning on our own axis. In general, newspaper work doesn't require this much exploration or science, and I would hope the Spokesman-Review would care more about whether they can be as accurate as possible more than they do about whether they can claim dibs on being the first to report on a topic.
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