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...French President François Mitterand officially opened a similar experiment: The Chunnel, the underwater tunnel to connect England and France. The conclusions, however, speak to the failure of the results to satisfy the hypotheses. Eurotunnel, the group which manages and operates the tunnel predicted high passenger and freight traffic. Instead, low volumes of both passenger and freight traffic is trapping the company in quicksand—which Spain and Morocco did not heed as a cautionary tale...

Author: By Patrick JEAN Baptiste | Title: Big Dig in the Mediterranean | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

...issues in his young life: casual sex, his broken family or certainly school. The legendary hangout is East Side Park, known to the hard core skateboarders as Paranoid Park. One night he lends his board to a stranger who in exchange offers to show him how to ride a freight train. It was a surprise to me that young people today even knew there were trains, let alone freight trains, let alone an outlaw tradition of riding the rails. Maybe Alex has some hobo blood in him, or is a Woody Guthrie fan. Please advise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mighty Hearts and Dark Deeds | 5/21/2007 | See Source »

...exactly, do you fine-tune a freight train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is China's Economy Overheating? | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...hard landing ensued. In the first quarter of this year, inflation at 2.7% was at its highest level in two years, and money supply in China has been, in the view of some economists, excessive for quite a while now. Is fine-tuning really an option? Or is this freight train now rolling with such momentum that a messy derailment is likely, if not inevitable? Jun Ma, the chief economist at Deutsche Bank Securities in Hong Kong, has been one of the more accurate forecasters of the Chinese economy in recent years. He still believes the inflation threat is manageable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is China's Economy Overheating? | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...York I love you, but you’re wasting my time / Our records all show you were filthy but fine.” Then there’s “All My Friends,” early frontrunner for song of the year. Freight train piano chords, a galloping bass, and Murphy belting out, “Where are your friends tonight?” Sonically, it’s New Order’s “Age of Consent” on HGH; lyrically, it’s something completely new. Objectively, it?...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: LCD Soundsystem | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

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