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submitted by enikhanjohorns for team Green Living 126 weeks 6 days 6 hours 55 minutes ago
This perspective is much less comfortable to face than the one presented by Al Gore, civilization—as it has for the duration of its ten thousand years of fascism and genocide—offers only two options: Collective resistance or death. How the colonized captives of civilization respond does not...(more)
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submitted by Lisa 174 weeks 1 day 22 hours 30 minutes ago
Once upon a time, vacations remained true to the Latin root of the word - empty. After vacating one's home and voiding one's schedule, you emptied your mind while slurping an alcoholic slushie from a bendy straw.
But lately the travel industry has been seized by a...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Bicyclism 180 weeks 1 day 9 hours 51 minutes ago
Four-dollar gas has fueled a boom in the number of Bay Area drivers shedding some wheels to cut their commuting costs.
This year's soaring gas prices have spurred a growing number of motorists to park, or even sell, their cars, and instead use two- or sometimes three-wheeled...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Bicyclism 205 weeks 4 days 1 hour 24 minutes ago
Every day, Marin residents log more than 131,000 miles by bike and on foot, according to the first report on the county's participation in a $100 million nationwide pilot project aimed at getting people out of cars.
The percentage of daily trips made by bicycling or walking...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright for team Bicyclism 187 weeks 1 day 10 hours 58 minutes ago
For a vivid insight into the clash of old and new in China, follow the bicycle.
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submitted by Lisa for team Green Living 172 weeks 1 day 13 hours 39 minutes ago
Building a high-speed rail system would change the way Californians travel. But for high-speed rail to work - as it does in Europe and Asia - Californians will have to change the way they live, and the state will have to change the way it grows.
Unlike...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Outdoor news 195 weeks 4 days 9 hours 26 minutes ago
Considering leaving the city behind for a weekend of camping? Don't forget these essential gadgets.
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submitted by Collin Frost 187 weeks 58 minutes ago
She thought about it for four years. She wanted to try it, but kept balking.
"I was scared," says Francine Choi, a Los Angeles County employee who lives in Long Beach. "I was worried I'd get mugged." And then a couple months ago, filling her BMW at...(more)
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submitted by Micca 228 weeks 1 day 22 hours 44 minutes ago
True story: A North Carolina teacher gave an example to his class of a statement by the school's football coach: "I'll be done drove there by 3 o'clock." Now, the teacher said, give the correct future perfect tense of that sentence. A boy's hand shot up....(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Green Living 146 weeks 2 days 22 hours 1 minute ago
When Anneli Rufus and Kristan Lawson met each other as undergraduates at UC Berkeley in 1979, they immediately noticed something about each other's style: It was decidedly secondhand.
"One night I was working at an ice cream store, and in walks this guy, this other student, wearing...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh 159 weeks 2 days 12 hours 12 minutes ago
Standing tall in a thigh-baring mini dress with a neckline that exposed her ample cleavage, Melanie Garrett, 50, stood out from the crowd in the Faz restaurant bar in Danville on a recent weeknight, and not just because of her decollete or her 6-foot frame.
Garrett...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Batboy's revenge! 161 weeks 5 days 22 hours 4 minutes ago
ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT IN A SUBURB of Albany, a group of children dressed as vampires and witches ran past a middle-aged woman in plain clothes. She gripped a leather harness — like the kind used for Seeing Eye dogs — which was attached to a small,...(more)
