Word: line
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Take the Red Line to Park...
...study currently under review by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) proposes a simple solution to the problem--building a fifth line on the outskirts of the city to connect outlying areas. Similar proposals for a "circumferential" transit route have been debated in Boston since...
According to the MBTA feasibility study released last week, building a circumferential rail line would cost more than $4.5 billion. Even if approved, the line would not be completed until 2010, said MBTA project coordinator Esther A. Johnson...
...introduced into NATO's logistics computers. Triggered just as the Soviet army marches into West Germany, the virus alters messages so that all allied supplies are sent to the wrong places. By the time the mistake is corrected a day or two later, key parts of NATO's defense line have collapsed...
...long and good a life the baby can expect. As scientists learn to detect ever more minute imperfections in a strand of DNA, it will become increasingly difficult to distinguish between genetic abnormalities and normal human variability. "We haven't thought much about how to draw the line," admits Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota. "It is going to be one of the key ethical challenges of the 1990s...