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...tailor routes to low-speed, limited-distance electric and muscle-powered vehicles, including EVs, hybrids, bicycles, scooters, horses and Segways. The basic law: stay under 35 m.p.h., unless your vehicle is crash-tested and certified for higher speeds. Of course, good old gas guzzlers are welcome too, as long as they go slow. "Everyone that's in this movement has a yearning for a slower pace," says Dean Curtis, who operates the website Green Interstate. "The great thing about the green highways is that they already exist. People just have to be reacquainted with them." (See the history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off the Interstate: Turning 'Blue Highways' Green | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

...question, before you whip out your credit card or start reciting your personal list of affirmations, is, What makes you think unsullied optimism is such a good idea? Americans have long prided themselves on being positive and optimistic - traits that reached a manic zenith in the early years of this millennium. Iraq would be a cakewalk! The Dow would reach 36,000! Housing prices could never decline! Optimism was not only patriotic but was also a Christian virtue, or so we learned from the proliferating preachers of the "prosperity gospel," whose God wants to "prosper" you. In 2006, the runaway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Overrated Optimism: The Peril of Positive Thinking | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

Princeton has gotten more draconian/sustainable by setting a year-long printing quota for undergraduates (2,100 sheets of paper) and graduate students (3,000 sheets of paper), effective Oct. 15.  Stay tuned for the May rush as frenzied students barter each other for their print credits...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Around the Ivies Plus | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

...stressed U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner—an East Asian Studies graduate from Dartmouth—may finally have an assistant treasury secretary for financial markets (from Cornell) to help him out. Now it's up to the Senate to approve her, and we all know how long that takes...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Around the Ivies Plus | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

...Lampoon's first parody book, Bored of the Rings, dates back to 1969, so we're not sure why it took this long to produce a follow-up that's 16 pages shorter, nor what the criteria were for choosing the new target. Still, we're curious to see how the pamphlet does. The official press release, book blurb, and excerpt all emphasize Edwart’s “zero interest in girls." (The insinuation, we think, is that he may be a homosexual...

Author: By Luis Urbina | Title: EXCERPT: Lampoon's New Book | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

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