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Cycles

What on Earth Are 'Commodity Super-Cycles' and Why Do They Matter?

Marcelo Giugale | Posted 05.09.2013 | World
Read More: Gas Prices, Commodities, Cycles, Developing Countries, Oil, Industrial Policy, Minerals, Development, Economic Diversification, China, Fiscal Policy, World News
Marcelo Giugale

Whatever happens to the price of those commodities matters a great deal for development and, even more, for the war on poverty. The problem is that those prices are famously volatile.

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See San Francisco on a Bicycle Built for You

GloboMaestro | Posted 03.19.2013 | San Francisco
Read More: San Francisco Travel, Concierge, Antonio Barrios, Urban Commuting, Bikes, Bespoke Bikes, Custom Bikes, Cycling, Cycles, Biking, Bicycles, Jefferson McCarley, Urban Biking, Mission Bicycle Handcraft, Video, San Francisco News
GloboMaestro

San Francisco is one of America's top bike destinations -- and Mission Bicycle is leading the charge. As the only shop in town that makes its own custom cycles, they'll help you design every component from frame size to color-coded tires.

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The Wisdom of Circular Thinking

Donna Henes | Posted 07.23.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Straight, Seasons, Cycles, Celestial, Mother Nature, Circular Thinking, Nature, Mother Earth, Circle, Circles, Cycle, Healthy Living News
Donna Henes

The circle of time, the celestial cycles, the round of the seasons, surrounds us and encompasses us. All there is, was, and will be exists within its ...

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The Unnamed Bicycle Column: Beyond the Tour de France

Keith Brown | Posted 05.26.2012 | New York
Read More: Bike Culture, Bicycling, Cycles, Bicycles, Bikes, Lance Armstrong Tour De France, Tommy Godwin, Lance Armstrong, New York News
Keith Brown

Ride a bike for a period of time, and someone is going to call you Lance Armstrong. It's just going to happen. Twenty-some odd years ago, I'm sure cyclists were called Greg LeMond, too.

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A Grander View of Evolution, Sans Voodoo

David Vognar | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Family Planning, Dalai Lama, Poverty, Children, Science, Social Darwinism, George Bernard Shaw, China, Government, Religion, Cycles, De Chardin, Sex, Humanity, Evolution, Superstition, Richard Dawkins, Lamarck, World News
David Vognar

A major reason for global political and personal problems is our misunderstanding of and blind conformity to cultural codes of attraction that reinforce insecurities, fear and social Darwinism.

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The Top 10 U.S. Cities For Biking (SLIDESHOW, POLL)

Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Slidepoll, Madison, Bikes, Austin, Minneapolis, Boulder, Bicycling, Green Living, Portland, Chicago Bicycles, Bicyclists, Cyclists, Cycles, Bicycles, Bicycle Culture, Bicycle, San Francisco, Cycle, Green News

Americans overwhelmingly continue to drive alone to work. With more than nine out of 10 workers favoring driving. But these 10 cities are definitely t...

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The Nature of Government

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Mental Health, Media Coverage of Economy, Cycles, Economy, Lao Tze, Perspective, Understanding the Financial Crisis, Handling the Financial Crisis, Understanding the News, Healthy Living News
Arthur Rosenfeld

I rang Lao Tze this morning to ask his help sorting through the befuddlement I'm suffering at the hands of the media and its endless stream of bad economic news.

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