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...exhibits, everything is hands-on. There are massage tables everywhere, and people are always handing you a sample of wheatgrass juice or some chartreuse-colored miracle supplement that will do everything short of rotating your tires. Someone named Lissa from Montana explains how a small, stainless-steel medallion known as the BioElectric Shield ($139) can be "the most powerful protection on the planet" against everything from computer screens to microwaves and cell phones...
None of this ethical purity would have been possible without a $9 million surplus left over from the 1993 Inaugural. The rest of the $30 million cost will be offset by the sale of tickets and trinkets, like the $39.95 bronze medallion, featuring likenesses of Clinton and Al Gore, available from the qvc shopping channel. (During one brief three-hour segment, buyers phoned in orders for the commemorative item totaling, on average, $10,800 a minute.) But home shopping is at least democratic; the sale of tickets to special Inaugural events is not. Democratic donors won the right to purchase...
There is one legitimate complaint that cab drivers can raise, however, and that is the fact that they are required to pay an $85,000 medallion fee in order to operate in Cambridge, while the U.S. Shuttle gets off scot-free. While cab drivers point out that the U.S. Shuttle can offer low prices because it doesn't have to pay the $85,000 medallion fee, this one-time licensing gives the right to operate as a taxi and provide services the U.S. Shuttle does...
...believe in the principles of free and fair competition espoused in Ec 10. But U.S. Shuttle offers cheap fares only because it is getting a free ride. As a Boston-based company, it is exempt from all medallion fees charged to other Cambridge taxis with whom they compete directly for business. If this is fair, then we've got some land to sell you in Arkansas...
...hard not to sympathize with the taxi drivers' need to support themselves. The city of Cambridge should reduce or scrap the $85,000 medallion fee for taxicabs and let them compete fairly with the shuttle...