El Camino de Los Internets

• Tomatoes and Peppers, Via George Lang - Bitten - Dining & Wine - New York Times Blog - lecsó could hardly be simpler: It?s an onion, pepper and tomato stew, seasoned with paprika and salt.


• Streetsblog » Summer Streets: Bikes and Pedestrians Get Along Fine Without Cars -


• Editorial - Putting the Park in Park Avenue - Editorial - NYTimes.com -


• Streetsblog » What Does Summer Streets Mean for Business? -


• The Associated Press: NYC experiments with traffic-free urban playground -


• Philadelphia Bicycle News: NYC Summer Streets video -


• Streetsblog » Streetfilms: Summer Streets 2008 -


• The joy of $8 gas - Los Angeles Times - Sure, $8 gas is unfair to poor people, but so is all of capitalism. Rich people get more of the globe's resources. No one has a right to cheap gas any more than he has a right to other things needed for a full and productive life, like an iPhone . . .


• The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz - What happens when busyness and sociability leave no room for solitude? The ability to engage in introspection . . .is the essential precondition for living an intellectual life, and the essential precondition for introspection is solitude.


• This Old (Healthy) House - Well - Researchers found that people who live in older, more walkable neighborhoods are at lower risk for overweight and obesity . . . because they had been designed for pedestrians. Newer neighborhoods often were designed primarily to facilitate car travel.

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