Astronaut spacewalk is no cakewalk

Astronaut Scott Parazynski repaired a damaged solar array on the international space station during a daring spacewalk. In the tense buildup to the spacewalk — one of the most difficult and dangerous ever attempted — NASA repeatedly warned that station construction would have to be halted if the wing could not be fixed.

The 210 take: When asked how he was able to perform such a delicate, complicated mission, Parazynski gave a thumbs up inside his spacesuit and said: “Thanks, Career Point!”

Thief steals doughnuts, has to run off calories

A pre-dawn heist ended with a wrecked Krispy Kreme delivery van. The van was stolen after the driver left the van's engine running to keep the doughnuts cool while carrying an order of baked goods into a gas station along Interstate 10. The thief then promptly crashed the van into a parked car and fled on foot.

The 210 take: Why is that you never hear about armored truck robberies in S.A., but the minute somebody leaves a doughnut truck unattended, it gets jacked?

Pakistan's president is turning off the TV

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf is cracking down on dissent in Pakistan. Musharraf has detained hundreds of lawyers and opposition politicians since taking emergency powers. And shortly before the government suspended the country's constitution, authorities shut down TV networks and threatened broadcasters with jail time.

The 210 take: A TV news blackout?!? But how are Pakistanis supposed to get important information like chupacabra exposés?

Two separate sets of high-profile fugitives fled to Mexico recently: A slaying suspect who posed as his cellmate and walked out of Bexar County Jail and a Nebraska teacher accused of running away with a 13-year-old student. The teacher and student were eventually found by authorities, but the Bexar County fugitive is still on the loose.

The 210 take: When asked for comment, Mexican authorities asked, “Didn't somebody say something about building a border fence?”

A 63-year-old Seguin woman is protesting the possible closure of her local Wal-Mart's fabric department. But a bad back, a bad hip and a heart condition took the grandmother off her vigil outside the store and have instead moved her protest to cyberspace, where she has created a MySpace page and a blog.

The 210 take: News Nuggets readers plan to mobilize as part of the protest, as soon as they wake up from the comas induced by having to read about Seguin fabric department closures.