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...opening-credits salvo that's among the zippiest, most thrilling assemblages in modern movies. The rest of Watchmen--which Zack Snyder, of 300 fame, directed from the wildly admired comic-book serial written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons--can't match this Mach 2 ride through alternative history. Nor is the movie likely to live up to the hype it and its source novel have generated. Derisive laughter was heard at a critics' screening, and a Hollywood Reporter review predicted that the film--budgeted at $100 million and the object of a rights wrangle between Warner Bros...
...subscriptions to the system and countless others who have rented bikes on a one-off basis. The program allows riders to use credit cards or subscriptions to hop onto one of the program's 20,600 bikes from 1,451 stations around Paris and its nearby suburbs. And the ride is free if the large, gray Vélib' bike is returned within 30 minutes. The inexpensive and convenient service has been embraced by Parisians as well as visitors (who make up 33% of Vélib' renters) - and is overwhelmed whenever strikes bring Paris public transportation to a stop...
Adding injury to insult, Standard and Poor's reiterated its sell opinion on shares of GM, which are commanding a mere $2.04 a share - about the price of a subway ride in New York City. Observing that the industry is gripped by an "automotive depression," S&P's Efraim Levy added, "We do not foresee an uptick in industry demand before Q4 '09 at the earliest." Chrysler was spared a similar indignity because it is privately held...
...tour for $8. (I gave up after about 15 minutes.) There's also the delightfully twisted Palacio de la Inquisición, which, despite its grand name, is a tiny museum that features some of the many torture devices used to elicit confessions of witchcraft. A 15-minute cab ride away, there's the historic fort Castillo de San Felipe, built in 1657 and site of the crocodile-filled penultimate scene in Romancing the Stone...
...your gym membership run out, but still want to break a sweat, Country Walkers offers hiking tours of destinations worldwide, including an eight-day romp through tropical rainforests and alongside volcanoes in Costa Rica (starting at $3,398); a week's trip to Mexico, including a horseback ride along a Baja beach and a stay in a 19th-century hacienda (starting at $3,198); a nine-day tour of the coast of Greece, exploring Roman mosaics and Byzantine churches (starting...