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Raising Boston subway fares has always been an emotional affair. In 1948, a fare hike from ten to fifteen cents inspired one of the great folk songs of the 20th century, J. Steiner and Bess Lomax Hawes' "The MTA Song." The ballad tells the story of a man named Charlie who rides "forever 'neath the streets of Boston," without a nickel to pay the subway's new exit fare. Walter O'Brien, a Boston politician, used the tale of the famous "man who never returned" in his 1948 mayoral campaign, promising to repeal the fare hike and "get Charlie...
...recent and groundbreaking study conducted by students affiliated with the Institute of Politics documented this commitment to public service. After surveying 800 students nationwide, the study's authors found that only one of six college students had joined a political or issues-related organization, and less than one in fifteen had chosen to volunteer on a campaign--yet more than half had decided to give back to their community by participating in public service...
...PSINet, AMS and UUcom, commercial titans of the new Washington. You can't miss the new-economy entrepreneurs in their Lexuses and Land Rovers doing deals on cell phones as they zip around I-66 and Routes 7, 50 and 123. And you certainly can't avoid the traffic. Fifteen years ago, Fairfax, Loudoun and Arlington counties in northern Virginia were nothing but sleepy residential communities and remote farmland, places to drive through on the way to Dulles Airport or concerts at Wolf Trap or camp sites near Front Royal. Now this 1,400-sq.-mi. area of northern Virginia...
...Oncomice," which have genes that make them prone to cancer, won the first ever American patent for an animal in 1988, but the University has been fighting for fifteen years to gain similar protection in Canada...
...they really are." Many of the plaintiffs--some of whom are unlikely to live to collect any damages--agreed. "No amount of money is going to change the way I have to eat," says throat-cancer victim Amodeo, who has to ingest nutrition through a hole in his stomach. "Fifteen cents, $15 million--it doesn't change...