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ORLANDO, Fla. -- A Florida Highway Patrol trooper, a 3-year-old and an Orlando school worker were injured after being attacked by a wild squirrel. Officers said the trooper was issuing a ticket during a traffic stop near Oakridge Children's Academy located at 2117 Oakridge Road in Orlando Wednesday when the squirrel ran up and attacked him. The officer was bit before he could toss the squirrel off him. Animal control officers were called to the area but before they could find the squirrel, it attacked and repeatedly bit a 3-year-old on a school playground. A worker tried to remove the...

<p>NEW YORK — Rep. Dick Gephardt, the former House minority leader whose presidential campaign collapsed in Iowa's caucuses, will endorse Democratic front-runner John Kerry, a Democratic official said.</p> <p>The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Missouri lawmaker will give Kerry his backing in Warren, Mich., a blue-collar suburb of Detroit, on Friday. The endorsement is a huge boost for Kerry who has been aggressively pursuing the backing of labor unions who had thrown their support to Gephardt.</p>

I never dreamed slowly cruising through a residential neighborhood could be so incredibly dangerous! Studies have shown that motorcycling requires more decisions per second, and more sheer data processing than nearly any other common activity or sport. The reactions and accurate decision making abilities needed have been likened to the reactions of fighter pilots! The consequences of bad decisions or poor situational awareness are pretty much the same for both groups too. Occasionally, as a rider I have caught myself starting to make bad or late decisions while riding. In flight training, my instructors called this being "behind the power...