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...program will be microscopic compared with Paris'. Officials are starting with 120 bikes and 10 stations to work out any kinks but hope it will grow to many times that. "We need to get bigger if we want to make a dent in congestion and pollution," says Jim Sebastian, planner for the district's department of transportation. And just like Paris, Washington is using bus-shelter ad space to pay for the program. Clear Channel's outdoor-advertising unit paid for the exclusive right to sell shelter ads and is pouring a percentage of that revenue into a scalable system...
Last year the estate of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond (and also, fun fact, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), invited the novelist Sebastian Faulks to write a new Bond book under the Fleming pseudonym. Devil May Care (Doubleday; 278 pages) begins magnificently: a world-weary 007 drifts through the pleasure capitals of Europe, recovering from the exertions of Octopussy and wondering if it might be time to hang up his 00's for good. The 20th century is leaving him behind: it's the 1960s; there are hippies in the streets, and M is making him do yoga. But when...
...risky assets linked to the soured U.S. housing market, big banks have been forced to write off more than $100 billion in recent months. Denied credit, others have imploded. Sporting the colors of old-school banking, C. Hoare & Co. has sidestepped the pileup. In a time of chaos, says Sebastian Dovey, managing partner at Scorpio Partnership, a wealth-management consultancy, the 336-year-old bank "symbolizes sustainability, preservation, reliability and continuity...
HALLE, GERMANY Lost organ composition by Johann Sebastian Bach is discovered...
...Hold on Now, Youngster…” shows just how far Los Campesinos! have developed in only a few months. The band’s basic formula has not changed. Clever lyrics and male-female vocal interplay borrowed from the likes of Belle and Sebastian and the New Pornographers form the backbone of most songs. Rarely is this better shown than on the old song “Don’t Tell Me to Do the Math(s).” The song’s oblique lyrics are shouted out at maximum intensity...