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...vehicle shuttles and 67,670 passengers on the railway trains are forecast to transit the tunnel daily. The vehicles will be carried on shuttle trains initially running at least every 15 minutes at peak periods and making the crossing in 35 minutes. Alternating will be passenger trains, while freight will trundle through in off-peak hours. For motorists, travel time between Paris and London will shrink somewhat, but for rail passengers the ride will be cut from 12 hours to three. The Chunnel will make rail and air roughly comparable in terms of the clock, if time spent getting...
...form of the new novel is the author's standby, the diary of a bemused old man who has survived civilization's downfall. Perhaps because of this resemblance to his other books, or simply because the freight of anger and disgust is so heavy it upsets the novel's balance, the element of Hocus Pocus that is storytelling seems perfunctory. Eugene Debs Hartke is the diarist, a gung-ho U.S. Army officer during the Vietnam War; then a professor of science at Tarkington, a college for dyslectics in New York State; then briefly the warden of a prison for blacks...
...were on the mind of a buyer for Iraq when he contacted a California manufacturer of capacitors in September 1988. One year later, he struck a deal for 40 capacitors powerful enough to detonate a nuclear blast. Last week U.S. and British customs investigators seized the cargo in a freight shed at London's Heathrow Airport and arrested four people in connection with the attempt to smuggle arms into Iraq...
Greyhound is as much a part of rural economic life as the local filling station or coffee shop. Businesses use buses to ship packages and other small freight that truckers will not handle. "Flower boxes aren't the right size for UPS," frets Main Street florist Reta Zollars, who has been getting fresh flowers via Greyhound for 15 years. For now, at least, her business is safe. Company management has frantically patched together its Los Angeles-Bishop route by chartering buses from other lines to fill in the schedule...
Such figures suggest how removed baseball people -- owners and players -- have become from most ordinary Americans who follow the sport and, in one form or another, pay the freight. The business of baseball has never been better, and the sport is awash in cash. While an entry-level salary of $90,000 may not seem terribly shabby, it is peanuts in today's major leagues, where the average annual wage exceeds $500,000. Simple, slavering self-interest should have dictated that both sides do everything possible to keep the dollars rolling in. A new television contract with CBS will bring...