How children lost the right to roam in four generations

"...There was a lot less traffic then..."

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"...We put a bike in the car and go off to the country where we can all cycle together...."

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=462091&in_page_id=1770

Perfect silicon sphere to redefine the kilogram

"...the diameter of the sphere varied by an average of only 35 millionths of a millimetre, making it a top contender for the title of the roundest object in the world."

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/making-an-exact-difference/2007/06/14/1181414466901.html

Malaysia's History is ill-formed

OpenOffice.org date representation vs. MS Excel

"...the Date field has been replaced by some scary hashes. Placing the cursor on the cell will reveal that the value set is now an “ill-formed serial value” of -191011 which is suppose to represent the year 1377. The only “valid” dates after this minor interoperability exercise are August 31^st 1957 and This years' date (2007)."

http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2007/06/malaysias_histo.html

Welsh speakers increase to 21%

Over a fifth (21 per cent) of the population of Wales said they could speak Welsh in the 2001 Census with similar proportions able to read (20 per cent) and write (18 per cent) Welsh. Sixteen per cent reported that they had all these skills. For the first time, the Census asked respondents about understanding Welsh; nearly a quarter (24 per cent) said they could.

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=447