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...States, is simply a cut above other forms of transportation.While planes uncomfortably crowd people against one another, forcing them to retreat into themselves, trains allow for a certain sense of Olympian detachment combined with carefree interaction.So as my friends sit on the tarmac at Logan or O’Hare on the way home to winter break, I’ll be ensconced comfortably—and, most likely, grinning like a fool—aboard my train. They will likely get to their destinations before I do, but I’ll be more than content...
Instant-runoff voting—which has its origins in a system developed in the 1850s by Thomas Hare of England and Carl Andrae of Denmark—is advantageous because voters are free to choose more marginal candidates who may not have the strongest chance at winning. Under a standard plurality voting system, voters are often pressured to choose mainstream candidates for fear that their votes would be wasted on less viable candidates...
...released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Child Trends that examined factors like health and education, low-income children are better off in poor, rural areas (the Midwest, for example) than in wealthier and more urban locales (the Northeast). "It is surprising," says report co-author William O'Hare about the plight of poor kids in rich states. "There is a crucial sense of community lacking in the metropolitan areas...
Indeed, Stoppard has always stood apart from many other British playwrights of his generation, like David Hare, for avoiding an overtly political (usually left-wing) point of view. He describes his politics as "timid libertarian." Yet he can rev up a pretty bold rant on Britain's "highly regulated society," which he thinks is "betraying the principle of parliamentary democracy." There was the garden party he threw recently, for example, where because there was a pond on the property, he was required to hire two lifeguards. "The whole notion that we're all responsible for ourselves...
Percentage of simulated explosives missed by federal TSA screeners at Los Angeles international airport; screeners at Chicago O'Hare missed more than 60% of test bombs...