It's very safe when done properly. A lot of people don't know the right way to ride in traffic. It's different, after all, from what you were taught when you were 6 years old.

We're definitely getting more calls, and the preponderance of questions are from people who want to know the best route to bike to work. We have volunteers we call route-gurus who know Boston and bicycling so they can devise commuting routes that are efficient and safe.

Years ago, the 10-speed bike was as fancy as it got. But today, bikes not only have a greater capacity in terms of gear speeds, but they also are made of lighter but stronger materials.

More than half the American people now believe that the invasion of Iraq was a mistake, ... They're right. But it would also be a mistake to pull out now, or to start pulling out or to set a date certain for pulling out. Instead we need a strategy to create a stable, democratizing and peaceful state in Iraq -- a strategy the administration has failed to develop and articulate.

People of every ethnic group and religious persuasion have got to be given the right to live here,

They're picking them up left and right along the coast and those shelters are overwhelmed — the ones that are still open.