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...have put an end to the railroad anachronism. The attack that killed some 200 innocents was cruelly simple. The perpetrators left backpacks full of explosives fitted with simple timers and walked away. "It's a load of rubbish to call it a sophisticated attack," says British security expert Michael Dewar. "You and I could do it." Some 10 million train and subway trips are taken every day in America. Amtrak shuttles 66,000 of those passengers, two-thirds of them through the target-rich northeast corridor. The Washington Metro moves 600,000 people near national monuments. What makes trains useful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Risky Rails | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

Maybe too thrilling. Burroughs quickly became a high-functioning alcoholic who downed a liter of Dewar's a night and sprayed Donna Karan for Men on his tongue to hide the smell at work. "To this day," he writes in Dry, his art director at the ad firm "has never forgiven me for calling one of our clients at home at two in the morning and initiating phone sex." You can see why she packed him off to rehab. Burroughs spent a month at an all-gay clinic in Minnesota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drinking Out Loud | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

...clear that today's young bargoers--the industry's cherished 21- to 28-year-old core customers--aren't much interested in old-school labels like Dewar's or Wild Turkey. Catching their eye means selling at bars; bars in turn influence retailers. That's why the bar show is a must for firms like White Rock Distilleries of Lewiston, Maine, which flogs such novelties as schnapps in flavors called Poison (Wild Berry) and Sting (Sour Raspberry). Because the slogan for the new line is Have You Had Your Shots Today?, samples are served by statuesque blonds in white-vinyl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Booze Blues | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

...newly-elected member of Phi Beta Kappa are, in Adams House: Avik Chatterjee, Elizabeth N. Dewar, Trevor D. Dryer, Matthew P. Feldmann, Martin A. Kurzweil, Nancy Liao, Kalina B. Manova, Robert R. Porter, David Soloveichik, John C. Tsou and Michael S. Weidman...

Author: By Katherine M. Dimengo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Members Named, Continuing 212-Year-Old Tradition of Recognition | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...Dewar said she was impressed when members of the Reich campaign approached her and asked to her to volunteer...

Author: By Christopher M. Loomis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Female Faculty Endorses Candidate | 5/2/2002 | See Source »

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