A vandalism incident at the Scotts Valley High homecoming football game on Nov. 5 has turned into the talk of the town, despite no criminal charges being filed.

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A recent trip to Portland, Ore., opened my eyes to the possibilities of bicycling as a major component of daily transportation, even in the rain-drenched Pacific Northwest. The city is crisscrossed with paved biking trails and connected by a well-planned mass transit system known as the Max, including special hooks for hanging bikes.

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About 10 years ago, there was an advertisement on TV for the then-new Gillette Mach3 razorblade. It showed a beefed-out guy shaving his face, wearing nothing but a towel, while admiring himself in the bathroom mirror, just as a jet fighter plane flew overhead and a supermodel ran into the room and touched his face.