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...Cock, Calle de la Reina, 16 (34-91-532-2826). Tucked down a little side street behind Gran V??a, this is a Madrid classic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madrid | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

...Saw” that started it all was made on a mere $1.2 million. To put that in perspective, “HSM3” cost $17 million, which is still not a whole lot, and the film that came in just behind “Saw V?? at the box office, the Mark Wahlberg action vehicle “Max Payne,” cost $35 million, so far has a total domestic gross of only $38.6 million, four weeks into its theatrical...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman | Title: A Slice of Justice | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...insists after meeting a Jewish friend with the name.) They exaggerate their borderline inappropriate versions of accents when saying an ethnic name in Spanish or a city name here in China, and they exchange “w” with “v?? (“Vow, vunderful”). The problem is, they either take themselves too seriously or find themselves absolutely hilarious. I just cringe...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan | Title: A Comedy of Language | 7/11/2008 | See Source »

...making things convenient for riders is a major production. Some 400 people work full-time to ensure that the V??lib program runs smoothly. Every day trucks have to move bikes around to meet rush-hour demands, and a barge along the Seine serves as a floating bike-repair shop. "We conceived of this as a public-transportation system, so it operates as one," says Bernard Parisot, president of JCDecaux NA, the outdoor-advertising company that runs V??lib with the profits it makes from selling ads on bus shelters and billboards. To help keep impatience to a minimum, V?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bike-Sharing Gets Smart | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...renewed interest? One word: V??lib. Paris launched the V??lib program a year ago, and while trs cheap (its name is French shorthand for "free bike"), it's actually not free. Although places like Copenhagen, Lyons and Barcelona are big on bike-sharing, the City of Lights boasts the crme de la crme, with 20,600 bikes and about 1,450 stations--four times the number of Parisian metro stops. It's hard to walk more than two blocks without running into a bike rack, which helps explain why the program has already yielded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bike-Sharing Gets Smart | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

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