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While collapsibles still make up less than 1% of the U.S. market, sales have more than tripled in the past three years, and they are moving from a cultish niche item to a legitimate product category. "The increase in popularity is almost a problem for my business," says Wasson, who sells and rides only the British-made Brompton, a hand-built brand that weighs as little as 24 lbs. and costs from $600 to $1,110, depending on the model...
Cleaning up British politics--and getting Labour finances, still in a parlous condition, back on track--will be a problem for the next Prime Minister. Blair's challenge is to seize back control over the manner and timing of his departure. It won't be easy. The investigation trundles on, although detectives appear to have shifted their focus from the original accusations of corruption toward the possibility that some of those questioned may have deceived investigators. (World-weary Washingtonians may now recite that old mantra: "It's never the crime. It's the cover-up.") Blair is determined...
...compass, we’ve lost what we’re fighting for.” The audience included Samantha Power, Lindh professor of practice of global leadership and public policy at the Kennedy School of Government and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “A Problem From Hell.” “[The film] pulls all findings of all investigations together with the best evidence to constitute a clarion call for a 9-11-style investigation,” Power said. “The fact that we are almost three years from...
...uniform white cases with descriptions, and there are televisions and VCRs playing movies about the room. You can pick a movie and watch it there, or even check out two videos at a time for up to two days, free of charge. The Blockbuster-esque layout presented a problem for the VES staff in charge of the project: how to get knowledgeable, interested people to staff the exhibit? Instead of hiring people unqualified or uninterested in the exhibit, the VES staff decided on an internship program, reaching out to students from Harvard, MIT, and other local colleges to publicize, maintain...
...mildly amusing and halfway-clever diversion in a book full of them. Did you know that a young Adolf Hitler had his “pip-squeak of an anus kept as immaculate as an opal, small and glistening?” Or that evil people have an unavoidable problem with body odor? Or that bees can explain many of the most difficult aspects of human existence?Somewhere between the endless chapters on the life of bees and the endless obsession with the scatological and the priapic is one of the most sinister and compelling men of the twentieth century...