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...dryer. The bathroom has a toilet, two sinks and a full-size shower with brass fixtures. The bedroom, with a queen-size bed, has a second TV set, and a satellite dish on the roof keeps the bus linked to dozens of stations even while it cruises on the highway...
...people, who number no more than 3,000 at present, are growing by a couple of hundred a year. They try to avoid attention, but that's difficult in a vehicle that's about as subtle as a parade float. Curious highway patrol officers sometimes pull them over just to get a peek inside. Celebrity hounds, hoping to cadge an autograph off some rock star, sprint across parking lots and bang on the doors, demanding that the occupants identify themselves...
...people can unplug from Indio's water, sewer and electric lines and be on the road in 15 minutes. Backing up can be tricky, so the $1 million bus is equipped with a videocam in the rear end and a monitor at the driver's seat. On the open highway a bus handles as easily as a big, expensive car. At the end of the day, bus people often turn into an empty mall parking lot to camp. Wide-open Wal-Mart lots are a favorite resting place...
Unlike many of the lines drawn by the Harvard administration, the ones at the front of shuttle buses are neither arbitrary nor inconsequential. Mandated by state and Federal Highway Administration regulations, the lines exist to ensure public safety. It is a violation of these regulations for a bus to be operating when person(s) are occupying the prohibited area that the line demarcates, and, according to Carl A. Tempesta, manager of Passenger Transport and Fleet Management Services, "drivers are responsible for enforcement of this safety regulation, which could mean turning away riders...
...This tax cut bill, coming without a budget, is another 'my way or the highway' approach to legislating in this Congress," said Minority Leader Dick Gephardt. "My assessment after just a few weeks of this Congress is that bipartisanship is over." Could he have been miffed that Republicans threw a celebratory party - complete with balloons and a playing of "Taxman" - before the bill was even passed, so they could get it on the evening news? Or was he merely hurt that George W. Bush, for all his talk, has still not deigned to make the words "bipartisan consensus" more than...