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...millions of people were left without power throughout the archipelago on Wednesday, Japanese television stations aired nonstop storm coverage, including riveting shots of gushing waters and daring rescues. In the western port city of Maizuru, 36 elderly tourists and their driver were stranded on the roof of their bus overnight as the overflowing Yura River swirled around them. The passengers later told Japan's Kyodo News service that they broke the windows of the bus with a hammer and then sang the 1961 hit Ue o Muite Arukou (known abroad as the Sukiyaki song) to muster courage. At one point...
...adidtion to tokens for single rides, T stations currently accept monthly subway passes and other bus-subway combination tickets...
...Toyota announced plans to manufacture the Prius, its hybrid gasoline-electric car, in China, where it hopes the clean vehicle will find a significant market. Beijing's government, meanwhile, is working to develop electric cars before 2008, and GM is working with the Shanghai Automotive Group on a hybrid bus design...
...first year at a Californian university. Having left as a quiet, affable boy, he came back a very bad-tempered young man?and this change had taken place, we discovered, because of a writer named Naipaul, whom he had been reading in California. Each time we saw an overcrowded bus or hit a road with potholes, my brother would repeat Naipaul's line that India was "an area of darkness." No water in the taps this morning? More proof that we Indians inhabited "a wounded civilization." He grumbled, sulked, and quoted Naipaul all summer long, and we were very glad...
DIED. JOHN KELLEY, 97, Massachusetts native who ran the Boston Marathon a record 61 times from 1928 to 1992; in South Yarmouth, Mass. In 1935, armed with a lucky handkerchief and 15 chocolate pills, he took a subway, a train and a bus from his home to the starting line, and clinched his first Boston victory. He won again in 1945 and placed second seven times. In 1993 the city honored him with a statue near the base of Heartbreak Hill...