Staff Blog
What We’ve Found: “Bait” cars, strange saluting rule, eco-race, bicycle ambulance and possible SEPTA strike imminent
Julia Harte with your morning fix.
The Upper Darby township was preparing to release its first "bait" cars -- cars equipped with GPS tracking devices and hidden cameras -- to trace car theft in the area.
Kids in southern China were being ordered to salute passing cars, according to the latest in a long stream of Chinese bureaucratic edicts denounced by critics and local media as arbitrary and senseless.
Solar-powered and hybrid vehicles were racing 1,800 miles across the entire continent of Australia in the Green Power Challenge, one of the world's first competitions for cars fueled by renewable sources.
In a region where women are 14 times as likely to die from childbirth as British women, one village in Malawi appeared to have eliminated the problem by maintaining a "bicycle ambulance" that ferries women entering labor 18 miles to the nearest hospital.
The president of Philadelphia's Transit Worker's Union vowed that a strike could be called by the end of the week -- perhaps affecting the first local World Series game -- if negotiations don't result in wage and pension increases for SEPTA employees.
