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...Gation, an employee at the Quad Bike Shop in Cambridge, said he thought the time was right for a bike sharing program to succeed. “The demand for alternative means of transportation on campus has increased tremendously lately,” he said. “Our store has been so busy with bicycle and tune-up requests that we are struggling just to keep up with the rapidly growing demand for bicycles.” In 2004, the Environmental Action Committee proposed an initiative to the student body that allowed them...
...Pirate Bay, for its part, was unrepentant. In a statement streamed live on the firm's website, Peter Sunde reckoned it "bizarre we were even convicted at all." Its defense: the company doesn't host or store the offending material, and files aren't actually exchanged on the site. Instead, the Pirate Bay acts like a directory, pointing users to material hosted elsewhere on the Web. In that sense, Sunde told the BBC recently, "there's no difference between us and Google." (See the 50 best websites...
...Harbor,” an excerpt of which appeared in The New Yorker’s Winter Fiction Issue. Last time he was in town, in 2006, he drew a crowd of 75 people to the Brattle Theatre, according to Heather Gain of Harvard Book Store. This time when he is in Boston, he will read at Porter Square Books on May 7. When asked about the reading, Ellen Jarrett, who is in charge of organizing events for the bookstore, says, “I am very hopeful for a good event...His first book was very popular. And based...
...village of La Reforma in eastern Guatemala doesn't seem like the kind of place that would have a first-rate hospital and a handful of mansions. There's no bank, no grocery store and more than 70% of the inhabitants of the municipality that includes La Reforma, called Huite, are poor. But officials tell TIME they suspect a few locals are making a handsome profit by assuring that Colombian cocaine makes it safely through Guatemala to Mexico and then...
...once thriving Revolution Avenue that runs through this unwieldy border city, Oscar Rivera eyed a solemnly empty store of sombreros and ponchos. Amid a global recession and drug war that is terrifying American visitors, business has nose-dived, Rivera says, falling a staggering 85%, compared with last year. "I've made $2 today. That is one dollar for me and one for my assistant. How can we live on that?" he asks. "This is what President Barack Obama has got to look at when he comes to Mexico. We have got to work together with the United States...