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...Vultaggio, the 6-ft. 8-in. son of an A&P produce manager, who started out hawking beer in New York City from the back of a Volkswagen bus (he proudly recalls being a victim of armed robbers and once threw a brick at a robber's getaway car), wind up building a New Age--drink business, selling bottles adorned with cherry blossoms? From death stares to drapes in three easy steps. Vultaggio and partner John Ferolito established a semisuccessful beer distributorship before trying to produce their own brands. Their first choices were a little less refined than mandarin-orange...
...There is no water. The streets were once lively with Mandingo shops; now much of Kakata is burned and looted. Any Mandingo who did not manage to escape was "killed like a chicken," boasts a rebel. Every morning hundreds of people gather alongside the road, waiting for the occasional bus or truck to take them east to safety. If they are lucky, they will join 300,000 other refugees who have fled this war. "Doe started the killing 10 years ago," says an old man waiting with his family. "Who will stop...
...unlikely duo immediately ran into roadblocks. Bus companies took vehicles off the road, stranding angry commuters. Mile-long queues of rickshaws formed at the handful of gas stations with CNG pumps. Oil companies trotted out scientists who claimed that CNG was just as polluting as diesel. But Narain and Lal fought back. By December 2002, the last diesel bus had left Delhi, and 10,000 taxis, 12,000 buses and 80,000 rickshaws were powered...
Both the city bus system and Harvard’s shuttles use the fuel, and a state law will go into effect in October requiring construction sites to use the low sulfur diesel...
After returning to Cambridge, the team will board the bus once again for the trip to Hamden, Conn., to play Quinnipiac in their last road game before finally playing a home date...