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...Train? Here?s where the good news starts. Amtrak says it's getting 10 percent more inquiries about tickets for the Thanksgiving period than it did a year ago, when the passenger rail service carried 567,000 people, said spokeswoman Karina Van Veen. And Greyhound Bus Lines reported a 20 percent surge in advance-purchase tickets for the Thanksgiving period and an increase in trips longer than 1,000 miles...
...course, if Bin Laden were quite the supervillain we've sometimes made him out to be, some may imagine we'd have seen some more explosions in America by now. But the anthrax thing and the Greyhound thing and the Russian plane thing all turned out to be ordinary human catastrophes, red herrings, false alarms - "isolated incidents." (That, incidentally, will be the next cool cultural buzzword for this war, replacing the now-too-creepy "collateral damage...
...Still, capping a 24-hour period during which a Greyhound bus crashed in Tennessee after a Croatian man slashed the driver's throat, and Indian commandos stormed a grounded airliner in New Delhi only to discover that its 'hijacking' was a hoax, it's hardly surprising that the Black Sea air disaster raised fears of terrorism. After all, the flight originated in Israel and most of its passengers were Israeli. The crew of a nearby Armenian Airlines plane reported seeing an explosion aboard the doomed plane, before it spun down into the sea. And Russian and Ukrainian media have been...
Unfortunately, Western and Central Mass are not as gloriously connected to Boston; think Greyhound or Peter Pan for transportation. On the edge of the state lie the Berkshires, mountains unparalleled in radiance especially during the fall. Pittsfield is the main jump off point for most commercial vacations and is accessible by plane, train, bus, and for the fortunate car. It hosts multiple activities throughout the year from hiking, skiing, to biking with information available at www.berkshires.org...
Kolya is not the only therapist making the rounds of the vast hospital complex at UCLA. There's also a poodle named Platinum, a pug named Egor and a greyhound named Aladdin--not to mention the eight golden retrievers, four black Labs, two German shepherds and several mutts. Canine candy-striping--which began in the 1980s as just another recreational activity for patients, like clown visits to children's hospitals or barbershop-quartet appearances at nursing homes--has evolved into an important and fast-growing component of modern patient care...