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Locally, Boston cab drivers—who relied for their fares on trips to and from Logan Airport—are also suffering. The same number of cabs are fighting for a much smaller number of passengers, and cabbies are driving around Boston with vacant back seats...
Just a day after the World Trade Center was flattened, tens of thousands of New Yorkers gamely hopped a train or a cab or walked to work as usual. What else were they going to do? Quit? Not likely. Similar pluck will mark the national economy. Sure, there will be economic tremors from the terrorist attacks. But the likely net effect--purely in economic terms--will be to hurry up and shorten a slowdown already in place and bring a quick end to the bear market that has gripped Wall Street since the Dow peaked in January...
...everyone in this world has a lover except me," sings a woman. "Why is it so?" Her lament, in Persian, throbs over the speakers of a cab heading for Kabul, Afghanistan. An hour into the six-hour journey from neighboring Pakistan, the taxi driver abruptly switches cassettes, and chants of Koranic verse replace the pop song. Moments later, the car stops at a checkpoint. The wooden poles of the barrier are entwined with strips of confiscated audiotape and film, the loose ends flapping in the wind. A guard peers into the car and inspects the four passengers and driver before...
...York has changed--and there's a Starbucks on every corner and it's so expensive to live in Manhattan and all these things that are different from when I grew up here--the bottom line is that when you walk down the street or get in a cab or you're on the subway, you're still amongst humanity. It's not segregated the way many American cities...
...interviewed drivers of the Boston Cab Co. to investigate whether cab drivers had ties to Logan Airport baggage handlers who may have helped carry out the terrorist plot in New York, former FBI supervisor Robert Fitzpatrick told the Associated Press...