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...Welcome to the cruel downside of Vélib' - the enormously popular bike-rental scheme offering Parisians a cheap, environmentally friendly form of urban transportation. Since its introduction in July 2007, Paris' Vélib' program has facilitated 42 million rentals by 177,000 people with annual 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...
...pushy and irresponsible behavior rivaling that of the city's motorists, it may not, in fact, be true that the worst two-wheeled offenders are usually Vélib' renters - despite the statistics that suggest as much. The number of Paris accidents involving cyclists has exploded 37.2% since the scheme was introduced, surging from 506 crashes in 2006 to nearly 700 in 2007 (including three Vélib' rider deaths that year; there were four in 2008). However, that surging accident rate is largely accounted for by the more than 70% increase in cycle traffic since...
...Iranian test has raised alarm bells in the West and renewed interest in the Bush administration’s harebrained scheme for a European missile defense program in Poland and the Czech Republic. But, before we commit to such a program, the Obama administration should remember the most important lesson of the Bush years: the importance of using diplomacy first. Before committing to the expensive and unproven missile shield in Central Europe, the United States should exhaust all of its remaining diplomatic options...
...Lorna, a young Albanian woman who dreams of opening a snack bar in Belgium with her boyfriend and agrees to a sinister plan: she is to marries Claudy, a junkie, for citizenship, kill him, then marry a Russian gangster who will pay richly for a Belgian passport. But the scheme falls apart when Lorna starts to fall for Claudy. The Silence of Lorna, which opens in the U.S. in July, is as much a love story as it is a thriller, and - being a Dardenne film - it has a good dose of social criticism, too. (See pictures of the best...
...fantasy of making out with himself in a music video. Gone are the days when Kanye would wax poetic about the nature of religion, war, and love, and the days we wanted to awkwardly fist-pump to his infectious rhythms. Kanye strains himself for a decent rhyme scheme; the best that the lethargic “Heartbreak” can conjure is, “Bad enough that I showed up late / I had to leave before they even cut the cake / Welcome to heartbreak.” The trippy visual concept is admittedly cool, except, well, it was also...