How to avoid eating Pink Slime? Washington Post says buy the organic ground beef.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/industries/is-pink-slime-in-your-burger-you-may-not-know-until-its-in-your-mouth-_-or-ever/2012/03/16/gIQAAEhjFS_story.html

Eight years of traffic fatalities

http://map.itoworld.com/road-casualties-usa#fullscreen&lat=45.42346983501714&lon=-122.6209244045051&zoom=13 shows 2001-2009 traffic fatalities in our area. Half are pedestrians.

Reliable cars

http://www.gizmag.com/the-100-most-reliable-cars-of-the-last-decade-in-order/5657/ lists the hundred most reliable cars, per a third-party warranty company.