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...took the ferry to Hoboken, N.J., where I boarded an Amtrak train north to Boston. As the ferry started across the water, we saw lower Manhattan for the first time since we had run from it that morning. We were horrified at the destruction, but I was also relieved to see the American Express building still standing...
...broad a brush to accuse persons simply on the basis of mere suspicions. It is natural at a time of disaster to look for culprits, but all persons wearing turbans are not to blame. The New York Times reported that a poor Sikh was arrested on an Amtrak train on Friday. He was even discovered to be hiding a daggeractually a symbolic weaponin his shirt. A woman wearing a sari was nearly run down by a man outraged that he had been stopped by the cops. These are isolated instances of a sense of paranoid McCarthyism which we had thankfully...
Dukakis, on the board of directors of Amtrak, cajoled the audience with his own transportation dilemmas, and affirmed that Congress has not given due attention to the issue of funding efficient transit systems...
...pilot to read maps, play those books on tape and retrieve siblings' dropped toys and snacks from the minivan floor. And here's a tip I dreamed up myself. Since dialing and driving don't mix, teach your kids to use the cell phone. That way they can call Amtrak to reserve a sleeper for your next trip...
...course, not every foreign service will be quickly adopted at home. Americans who attended the 1998 World Cup in France came back agog with tales of clean, reliable, high-speed trains that whisked them between cities. Will Amtrak soon offer such a system? Don't hold your breath. But the impact of foreign travel on American products shouldn't be underestimated. In the past few years, countless tourists to Europe and Japan have been impressed by local cell phones that don't lose connections when you turn a corner and that have all sorts of services that are denied Americans...