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What's certainly missing is the service's piece de resistance, the bullet train modeled on France's futuristic TGV (train a grande vitesse). Now scheduled to launch in July, the Amtrak bullet has been delayed as builders attempt to adapt European tilting technology to America's rough freight tracks. Meanwhile, Amtrak is introducing other improvements to its Northeastern service under the Acela logo--primarily a reduction of the Boston-New York trip from five hours to just under four, using newly electrified tracks. The bullet train, a.k.a. the Acela Express, will reach speeds of up to 150 m.p.h., cutting...
...head last week. It centers on the so-called click streams that websites gather as you move from place to place, information that speaks volumes about your interests and buying habits--and that sites have been selling, without your knowledge, to any e-marketer willing to pay the freight...
...fact-paced trial of four New York City police officers accused of murdering Amadou Diallo is moving into its third week, and the lawyers representing the officers are scrambling to shore up their defense. "This trial is moving like a freight train," says TIME correspondent Jack White. That's not good news for the defendants, whose case was damaged Wednesday by a defense witness who suddenly turned hostile...
...turned our backs to the waves because our life vest in the front has a little pocket of air you can breathe if you're under water. I could hear each wave from behind me like a freight train coming. Then it sounded like a jet going past, as it hit me in the back like a 20-lb. sledgehammer. The waves were like five-story buildings--light green, with whitecaps on top. As they broke over me, it all turned a real royal blue, a real pretty, beautiful blue because of the light shining through...
...presidential election. Says Cox: "This guy has used 12 different aliases, three or four dates of birth. I've seen six pictures of him, and they all look different." There have been several false sightings, and police and an FBI task force have rousted illegal aliens out of freight trains in their search...