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...spokesperson Robert Sullivan would not comment on the company’s future plans for its rail yards in Allston, but emphasized the importance of the site for its freight services...
...John Snow, Bush's nominee for Treasury Secretary and chair of railroad freight company CSX, is expected to toe the line on tax cuts. That's not to say he doesn't make some supply-siders nervous; fiscal conservatives reportedly fear he may not believe fiercely enough in the tax-cut gospel Bush will ask him to spread. Further complicating matters, Snow, who is known for his distaste for deficits will have to make the case that a national debt isn't so bad after all. Still, the White House is reportedly delighted with Snow...
...debilitating as osteoarthritis can be, it at least develops gradually. That may not seem like much consolation until you consider the other arthritis--rheumatoid arthritis--which in severe cases can hit as fast and hard as a freight train. "People who are jogging one day," says Dr. Stanley Cohen of Dallas' St. Paul Medical Center, "can't get out of bed two weeks later...
...part of Australian life since 1840?more than 50 years before Waltzing Matilda was even composed. Strings of the haughty beasts speeded up European exploration of the continent's interior, and helped open it up for ranchers. Shipped over en masse from what is now Pakistan, these dromedaries delivered freight and carried mail, and when superseded by motor vehicles, were turned loose and left to fend for themselves. Ideally suited to the rough desert conditions of Australia's interior, the hardy beasts soon bred themselves into a vast, wild population of at least 200,000?the world's largest...
...want to find the people who want their names on freight elevators,” she jokes...