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...liras, or about 50 cents. The driver is free to pick up other passengers along the way who are heading in the same direction and usually drops you off at the main road closest to your destination. I used to think that a system where every passing cab stopped at a standing person on the street to ask where they wanted to go and didn’t even exactly take them there was horribly, disgustingly, un-American-ly inefficient...

Author: By May Habib, | Title: Returning to Lebanon | 7/30/2004 | See Source »

...usury a sin again. He does not, however, get the $20 entrance fee nonlocals pay at the door; that goes right to the back of the casino to the taxi driver who dropped his riders off at the front, as it does in all Vegas strip clubs. Driving a cab in Vegas has become less about ferrying passengers than strip-club promotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strip Is Back! | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

...more profitable revenue streams such as drinks and a $5 atm fee that almost makes usury a sin again. He does not, however, get the $20 cover charge nonlocals pay; as at all Vegas strip clubs, that goes to the taxi driver who dropped his riders off. Driving a cab in Vegas has become less about ferrying passengers than about strip-club promotion. "To someone from Minnesota we're sluts, but in Vegas this is a respectable job to the locals," says Sami, 33, a Sapphire stripper known as the Fire Bitch because she can light on fire a surprising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lovin' Las Vegas | 7/25/2004 | See Source »

...goal is not to take over the cab industry in Cambridge,” Riney said. “My goal is to prove that hybrid cars are a viable option...

Author: By Adam C. Estes, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hybrid Taxis May Come to Cambridge | 7/16/2004 | See Source »

...proposal is not “But you’re married!” because the response will invariably be “But in our law, men can have two wives!”—to watching Nasser-era Egyptian films and skirting eager cab drivers, airports have offered me hours on hours of good...

Author: By Rebecca D. O’brien, | Title: West Denial Virus | 7/2/2004 | See Source »

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