White Bikes; Summit Fatigue

[Laurence Horn]

Barry writes

>WHITE BIKES
>
>   Currently on AOL News, from Reuters, is "White Bikes," a proposal for
>Amsterdam transportation.  Cheap bikes (painted white) are placed in certain
>areas, and anyone can use them.
>
This was originally tried by the Provos (sort of Dutch Yippies) in the late
'60s and '70s but they were Orange Bikes.

>---------------------------------------------
>SUMMIT FATIGUE
>
>   Someone mentioned "summit fatigue," as in, "Not another Arab-Israeli
>summit again!"
>
Speaking of which, I just heard a "-rage" extension yesterday.  One hockey
father battered another to death in Massachusetts during a game involving
their 10-year-old sons and this was described on the national news last
night as an instance of "rink rage".

larry