Word: hubs
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...anxiety, but it doesn't have to be. Industrial designers from Purdue University have invented the Shift tricycle, whose rear wheels move closer together as the rider picks up speed, then separate for easier balance at slower speeds or at a standstill. A spring-loaded mechanism in the rear hub controls the rear wheels, and there are no spokes or exposed bike chain. The 25-lb. aluminum trike won an international bike-design competition in Taiwan this year. Now its creators want to produce it commercially. Next Product: Round Trip...
...nine-hole Kabul Golf Club boasts some 60 members, drawn mostly from the armies of aid workers and expatriate businessmen who have flooded the capital since the fall of the Taliban. The club's revival reflects Kabul's transformation, from a dusty no-man's-land to a bustling hub of commerce. Earlier this month the city opened its first five-star hotel; rooms start at $250 a night...
...nestled amid the rolling hills of Tennessee—I leapt at the opportunity to attend college in Cambridge, a real center of civilization. Upon arrival, though, I quickly realized that the city that, to a large extent, had drawn me to Harvard was not the glorious hub of humanity that I had envisioned. Instead, I found it to be a place marred by the most disconcerting of sounds, sights, and activities. I found that Harvard’s urban setting is not an asset, but one of the institution’s most notable weaknesses. In Cambridge...
...gallery space and play host to several long-term research initiatives, including Dalton’s own pet project, the Images of Black and Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive, as well as the African-American National Biography Project. The Institute will also serve as the hub of a new publication, the Du Bois Review: Social Science of Race, to be edited by Lawrence Bobo and Michael Dawson, who continue to be cozy with the Du Bois despite their relocation to Stanford...
Negotiating the distance between the Hub of the Universe and the Big Apple was never easy. Harvard students who found themselves in a New York state of mind could choose between the cramped Fung Wah Bus and costly Amtrak service, neither of which was very inviting for undergrads desperate to escape the puritanical regime of 2 a.m. bar curfews. Thankfully, JetBlue Airways has come to the rescue with dramatically reduced airfare between Boston and New York: for a bit more than the Fung Wah fare, travelers can fly from Logan Airport to Kennedy Airport in just 70 short minutes...