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...sewing machine operator in a sweat shop. He even managed to keep up his studies. It was partly the love of Engracia that kept him going. In 1996, he set off on a 2,000 mile journey north, through Mexico on foot and by hitchhking rides and catching freight trains until he reached California. He promised Engracia that he would find a way to bring her up north to join him one day. Says Lillian Cardenas, who would become his foster sister in the United States: ?He had nothing, no money, just the will for a better life...
...Cannery Row, to think about the consequences of a biological revolution. It was, of course, a revolution even he could not have anticipated. And not just because he died five years before Watson and Crick discovered DNA?s double helix (when his car was hit by a produce-laden freight train). Doc was an old-fashioned sort of biologist who combed tide pools for the invertebrates he loved - mollusks, anemones, starfish - and studied their gross features and quirky behavior (and supported himself by supplying biological specimens and slides to schools and research institutions from his rickety lab along Cannery...
...important freight yard for us, for our customers in Boston and for the region,” he said. “Just the sheer number of trucks coming on and off the nearby Turnpike is a good indication of just how busy that yard is. This is a facility that we do not take lightly...
...does that affect the pricing of all goods, affect the competitiveness in industry,” Houghton said. “If there were no rail available it would substantially increase our costs, which I suppose we would pass onto our customers. If that happened to all the freight coming in, the cost of living in New England would increase to some extent...
Berkeley said he worries that removing CSX’s lines would mean an influx of unwanted freight traffic on Allston’s roads and on the nearby Turnpike, some of which would carry hazardous materials formerly transported by rail...