Word: busful
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Undergraduates continued to choose the popular Fung Wah Bus service as their mode of transportation home this past holiday weekend despite a recent accident. Last Wednesday, a speeding Fung Wah passenger bus heading from Boston to New York crashed on I-90. The driver, Jimmy Chow, lost control of the vehicle and veered into the right guardrail at Exit 19, near the Allston-Brighton toll booths, according to Massachusetts State Police Sergeant Robert Bousquet. The bus held 35 passengers, none of whom sustained injuries. The disabled bus was towed from the scene, shutting down the Turnpike for five minutes, Bousquet...
...have is the power of the purse. Why don't they use it? Supporters of the war dare them to try, but stand ready to accuse them of abandoning the troops if they shut off funds - as if ending the war meant leaving American soldiers shivering in Baghdad without bus fare home...
...time. Throughout the country, galleros - as folks who raise and fight roosters are known - bring their avian warriors to their neighborhood cockfighting arena. The wealthier galleros show up in pickup trucks and SUVs, carrying their roosters in wooden travel cases. The poorer ones show up on bicycle or by bus, carrying their birds in a plastic bag. After the weigh-in, the birds get razorblades strapped to their feet, the bets are cast, the beers are popped, and the fights begin...
...Gate and its near-vertical flight of 50 stone steps. Spread before you, in the distance, is Machu Picchu's labyrinth of temples, terraces and plazas. This is where the descent into the ancient city begins-and, with luck, you will have arrived shortly before the last tourist bus departs (at 5:30 p.m.). That means you could have this astonishing, spiritual haunt virtually to yourself, in conditions of near silence. Now how's that for a sense of arrival...
...Both Li and Teng are pretty formidable, too, and remain dedicated to their public interest vocations despite knowing full well what the consequences can be. Last December, Li and three other lawyers took a long distance bus from Beijing to visit Chen. The bus was stopped in mid-journey and a group of seven or eight unidentified men, some of them wielding iron bars, climbed on board and attacked the lawyers. "I keep a positive attitude," Li said, but inevitably such experiences "shake my belief in the legal system of this country." Then Li showed me a picture someone...