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...getting attention at a free government-sponsored health care clinic. The program - called Barrio Adentro, Spanish for "inside the neighborhood" - brings tens of thousands of Cuban doctors to work in Venezuela in exchange for sending Venezuelan oil to Cuba under preferential terms. Since 2003, thousands of redbrick clinics have sprung up across the country, giving the poor 24-hour-a-day treatment closer to home...
...Here's the television I really will miss now: the cameras taken into the homes of every one of those twelve willful jurists who sprung O.J. free 12 years ago and made a mockery of the law by trying to turn a brutal murderer of two into a racial victim/hero. I wanted to see their faces as the man they declared innocent described to the world how he would have taken-nonsense: how he did take-the knife to Nicole's throat...
...meet the growing demand, more than a dozen major ride-sharing sites have sprung up, many of them quite sophisticated. Some allow users to sort by age, gender, type of car, smoking or smoke-free travel and even music preferences. At Carpoolworld.com you enter your destination, and the site spits out a list of registered users headed your way. Ridester.com one of the fastest-growing sites, with 11,000 unique users since August, will send you a text message when a potential match arises. It will also hit you with a $2 surcharge for each transaction and take...
...Sotheby's held its first sale of purely Chinese contemporary art in New York City only last March. A dozen or so foreign galleries from New York, London and Hong Kong have opened branches in Beijing and Shanghai in the past 18 months. Meanwhile, scores of local galleries have sprung...
...rise from $1.25 to $1.70 per ride, and bus fares will jump from $0.90 to $1.25, the organization surprised few; commentators had been anticipating just such a move from the deeply indebted MBTA for years. Likewise, it has hardly been a surprise that opposition to the fare change has sprung up across the city. Yet the virulence of this opposition is, in many ways, beyond what could have been expected. Groups and publications including The Phoenix and the T Riders’ Union have accused the MBTA of everything from price gouging to “transit racism...