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...traditional bicycle, take another look. Many of today's models come with bigger seats and higher handlebars--easing the strain on bottoms and backs--and even automatic gear shifting. Features like these have helped create a whole new line of bikes, known as hybrid or comfort, the latter word particularly appealing to older riders. The very hottest part of the market is road bikes, which also appeal to boomers who may be giving up on yesterday's phenomenon--less comfortable mountain bikes, a category in which sales have tailed off dramatically...
...engaged in an undeclared civil war between those who value individual liberty and those who think it is too dangerous. The latter group espouses a dependency on government. This country did not achieve greatness with a mind-set of "safety first" but rather "live free...
...each cartel: the more pragmatic businessmen, who are worried that all the blood has begun to hamper the efficiency of their cocaine distribution "plazas" in Mexico and along the U.S. border; and the more violent enforcers, who tend to see trafficking competition as a zero-sum game. The latter have enjoyed the upper hand ever since Mexico's traditional cartel structures began to disintegrate about five years ago and gangs like the Zetas - former army special forces soldiers who today are the Gulf cartel's dominant faction - filled the vacuum. As a result, the success or failure of any cartel...
What alarms modern social scientists is that in the latter part of this century the father has been sidelined in a new, more disturbing way. Today he's often just plain absent. Rising divorce rates and out-of-wedlock births mean that more than 40% of all children born between 1970 and 1984 are likely to spend much of their childhood living in single-parent homes. In 1990, 25% were living with only their mothers, compared with 5% in 1960. Says David Blankenhorn, the founder of the Institute for American Values in New York City: "This trend of fatherlessness...
...published an editorial in the Chronicle on January 3, defending Reeves’ actions and saying, “we should be proud of the mayor.” In the following weeks, Reeves’ office sent the Chronicle a spreadsheet of his credit card expenses from the latter half of 2006, which showed that Reeves charged the city with an average of $41.44 for each of his meals...