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...FRANCISCO Design Within Reach's Geneva Sound System (extra large without stand, $1,599) is the perfect antidote to city living...
This year, the group has dedicated itself to expanding computer literacy in Nicaragua and increasing the number of computers at El Instituto Nacional Francisco Luis Espinoza, a large public school in the nearby city of Esteli that accepts many students from HPSD’s partner communities...
...reporter to the end, he was killed in a car crash in San Francisco on the way to an interview with a former New York Giants quarterback...
...twice in the face of demonstrations to block its progress, and wound up driving it to the end-of-day handoff ceremony at Charléty Stadium on the edge of the city when the tormented relay was canceled at mid-course. As the torch moves on to San Francisco and Buenos Aires before heading back to Africa and Asia, the organizers of this summer's Beijing Games are facing a grim prospect: that the protests denouncing China's human rights record in Tibet and elsewhere could mount as the torch continues its 85,000-mile, 20-nation voyage...
...Given the troubles in France, Chinese officials are now almost certainly even more concerned over the torch's upcoming stops in San Francisco and Sydney. Both cities have large activist communities, which have been especially vocal on Chinese human rights abuses in the past. Both also boast proven records of spectacular and efficient protest organization. Between those two legs, meanwhile, the torch touches down in Delhi, where anger over China's repression in Tibet remains high. The Beijing Olympic torch show, it seems, is only just heating...