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...generated. Within seconds the system came crashing down, as one substation after another automatically cut off to protect itself from damage. And so at 12:39 p.m., the electricity sputtered off in Athens. Thousands of people, including Transport Minister Michalis Liapis, were stranded in the city's glittering new metro; hundreds more were stuck in elevators for up to four hours. The blackout soon spread to the country's agrarian south and the Ionian Islands, the worst power outage in Greece in decades. Authorities did their best to reassure the public, but on Thursday a fresh power cut caused...
...recent trip to Paris, I hadn’t even been in the country five minutes before the French’s disapproval of America became all too apparent. Advertisements for Fahrenheit 9/11 were plastered around the metro, while Le Monde Selon Bush (The World According to Bush)—another documentary suggesting that Bush deliberately made erroneous statements about WMDs in Iraq—was playing in theaters. The cover of the daily magazine L’Humanite portrayed Michael Moore dressed up like the Statue of Liberty, wearing his signature baseball...
...Nobuko Matsumiya, a koto player, says her performances in the Metro have helped her book dates above ground, at concert halls in France and across Europe. "It's a good way to meet people," she says. Adds L?onor Lepr?tre, a Parisian soprano trying to make a name for herself: "It's a great public: if they like your music they stay; if they don't, they just walk away." Last year the RATP released Correspondances, an album featuring the Metro's best performers. Like any good showbiz impresario, Naso makes space in his otherwise cramped office for a couple...
...Recently, London's Underground and transit systems in Rotterdam and Tokyo approached Naso for tips on how to set up similar tryouts. The Metro's liveliest stages include Ch?telet, with bands performing Latin American music and New Orleans jazz, and the Bastille, where Matsumiya regularly performs because, she says, it has "good acoustics." And Metronauts...
...National Paper from the West," he says. Thus, the Times increased its coverage of national parks, water politics and other issues that affect the West and are of national interest. One of its Pulitzers this year was for its reporting on last fall's wildfires in Southern California. The Metro section, which had been a confusing mix of local news for different editions, was reformatted into a California section that carries local and state news. (Miriam Pawel, who spearheaded the changes in California coverage, was replaced in a recent internal shuffle.) The California focus is also reflected in new feature...