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Worldwide, 280,000 people belong to car-share programs, nearly three-quarters of them in Europe, according to Susan Shaheen, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. The idea spread to the U.S. in 1998, with the opening of a small company in Portland, Ore. Since then, the movement has grown to 14 firms with 62,000 members in 14 states and the District of Columbia. The firms range from ambitious outfits like Zipcar and Flexcar, which are each adding as many as 1,000 members a month, to modest start-ups like the Dancing Rabbit Vehicle Co-operative...
...strictly speaking, from France. But that hasn't prevented the 30-year-old Belgian from becoming a favorite with her southern neighbors - and among the most promising actors in European cinema. With two films set for release in the U.S. and Europe this year, her popularity looks set to spread even further. De France is best known for her role as Isabelle, the lesbian confidante and romantic tutor of French actor Romain Duris in the 2002 film L'Auberge Espagnole (The Spanish Apartment). The Barcelona-set tale of a group of European exchange students learning more about life from...
...around the country. Islamic conservatives outpolled nearly 650 other candidates - including contenders with powerful tribal links and businessmen who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars - for all seven seats up for grabs on the Riyadh city council. They were better organized, emphasizing their technocratic skills while having the word spread via sms cell-phone messages and popular Islamic Internet sites. And they had the key backing of militant Islamic leaders, notably Sheikh Salman al Awdah, jailed for five years in the mid-'90s for opposing the Saudi monarchy. "They will make the country more conservative, while we want...
...that opens this week at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It's another step forward in what you might call the late Dali rehab project. Five years ago a show organized by the Zurich Kunsthaus, "Hypermental: Rampant Reality 1950-2000: From Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons," toured Europe to spread the not unreasonable idea that Dali was a significant precursor of Pop and postmodernism. In the same spirit he is being re-examined by academics and curators as a pioneer of the artist as public performer, role model par excellence for Andy Warhol and Koons. It might not seem like...
They decided to spread the no-excuses gospel after Behrendt offered Tuccillo and her female co-workers relationship advice at a writers’ meeting. Behrendt told one of the show’s writers that the man whose behavior she was trying to decipher was really as clear as she was dense: “Listen, it sounds like he’s just not that into you.” A phenomenon was born...