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Buyers looking for a brand that offers them more price options are flocking to the current leader, Dahon. The manufacturer offers dozens of models and styles, weighing from 23 lbs. to 31 lbs., and priced from $379 to $2,000. But other companies are jumping in. Citizen Bike launched just over a year and a half ago, selling foldables directly from its website at citizen citizenbike.com with models starting at $179. "Our philosophy is affordability," says company president Avery Pack. Bike Friday, a folding-bike manufacturer since 1991, offers a more boutique product, with custom-made bikes beginning...
...many such concerned commentators is that Obama cannot, and should not, be a “black president” any more than he should be a white one. A multiracial nation demands a colorblind president—one willing to fairly address the plight and concerns of every citizen...
Harvard Medical School honored Prince Charles with the Global Environmental Citizen Award in New York last week, recognizing his decades of work promoting environmental sustainability. But the prince of Wales drew flak from environmental activists, including Britain’s Green Party and the country’s environment secretary, for contributing to global warming by flying to New York, according to British news reports. Referencing the criticism, Charles opened his speech by joking, “I must warn you that I am in fact a video recording. I have only made a ‘virtual?...
...prison. It's against Chairman Mao's teachings.'' ''Hush! Don't shout! The government will deal with your case in due course. You are not the only one.'' ''I'm innocent!'' I yelled. ''I've never committed any crime. You have no right to lock up a law-abiding citizen! I demand rehabilitation and an apology!'' ''Keep quiet!'' The guard was now shouting in anger. ''Have you gone mad?'' Sometimes my endurance outlasted the guards' patience, and they resorted to physical violence to silence me, hitting me or kicking my legs. They called me a ''hysterical old woman,'' but they...
...dream because those who seized power would invariably become the new ruling class. Even this very junior official in the party hierarchy could make arbitrary decisions about my life and lecture me and accuse me of crimes simply because he was an official and I was just an ordinary citizen. We were not equals by any stretch of the imagination...