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...with what would have been its 60th anniversary falling this year, the 2CV is now a must-do tourist experience. In Clairmarais, a quiet town 45 minutes from Calais, Les Belles Échappées, www.les-belles-echappees.com, offers self-drive tours around the Nord and Flemish-tinged Pas-de-Calais regions...
...Truman Capote spotted a short item in the New York Times. It described a quadruple murder in small-town Kansas: two men entered a farmhouse, shot the parents and two children and left with $40, a radio and a pair of binoculars. Capote lit out for Kansas, interviewed everyone he could get his well-manicured hands on and seven years later published a book about it. In Cold Blood combined journalism with the literary liberties of fiction to create what Capote called a "nonfiction novel," about two antiheroes and the thwarted dreams that made them killers. He believed...
...heralded as a way to curb parking shortages as well as greenhouse-gas emissions, dozens of U.S. cities decided to give them a shot. Nonprofits in places like Boulder, Colo.; Charlottesville, Va.; and Gainesville, Fla., launched fleets of communal bikes that people could borrow for free and leave around town for the next rider to happen upon. No locks, no deposits and, pretty soon, no bikes. Theft and vandalism quickly wiped out many of these freewheeling initiatives. This month, however, Washington is rolling out America's first high-tech bike-sharing program. The so-called SmartBikes come with key-card...
...better than average that your parents are a healthy weight--only 11.9% of Boulder County residents are obese, compared with more than 30% for the U.S. as a whole. Colorado has the second lowest childhood overweight rate in the U.S., according to one survey. You live in a town blessed with parks and rugged natural beauty, where physical activity is all but mandatory and 14 triathlons were held last year--including one for kids as young as 3. But Boulder, with a population of more than 90,000 people, is large and dense; if you live in town...
Letts, 42, has lost the accent but not the plainspoken prairie equanimity of his Oklahoma roots. Both his parents were academics in the small college town of Durant, so it was something of a scandal when he ditched college and moved to Dallas at 17 to become an actor. From there he moved to Chicago, where he became enamored of the "gritty, in-your-face theater" exemplified by Steppenwolf. But it was a struggle. He had to move back home after a year to earn money, he battled drug and alcohol problems, and, after moving to Los Angeles...