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...sharing will be showcased at the Republican and Democratic national conventions, which are being held in Minneapolis and Denver, respectively. Each city will have 1,000 communal bikes on hand for its convention, thanks to a corporate sponsor and a cycling-advocacy group. To outsiders, cold-wintered Minneapolis may seem like an unlikely bike haven. But even when it's below freezing, hardy Minnesotans commute via bike. Last year the U.S. Census Bureau ranked Minneapolis the city with the second highest number of bike commuters as a percentage of the population. (Portland was No. 1.) After completing 100 miles...
...sixth of the price today but still more than the average annual income--poachers had laid siege to the park. Meanwhile, the proximity of villages, whose residents collected firewood and grazed cattle in the reserve, drove away the cats' natural prey and cramped their love life (tigers seem to mate successfully only when they feel secure and unobserved). From 2003 to the fall of 2006, Ranthambore's tiger population fell from...
Hannah's normalcy is refreshing, and it keeps the show light and funny. But it also makes her seem a little dull and shallow. The story strives so hard to make her unconflicted that she lacks the conflict a protagonist needs. Call Girl didn't need to make her a cautionary tale, but it might have benefited from a broader scope that told us more about her fellow escorts--those who don't, say, blithely name-drop Luis Buñuel flicks. In the Spitzer case, reporters eventually tracked down his regular date, "Kristen," an aspiring singer with a MySpace page...
...This is not a disease that will be solved with medicines or vaccines," says Thompson. "A social movement has to solve this." So far, the interventions seem to be working--after years of increase, obesity rates among children in Arkansas have leveled...
...might even call it touching--if the term didn't seem so out of place in Letts' oeuvre. An actor who began writing plays in the early '90s, he has turned out two slices of nasty trailer-park noir, Killer Joe and Bug; one spiritual-quest play with kinky twists, Man from Nebraska; and now, with August, a ferocious, giant-size family drama in which the gathering for Dad's funeral turns into a donnybrook of revelations, recriminations and extreme combat. It may be the best American play of the new century. It has snagged nearly every honor in sight...