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...coming performers would rather be heard on the subway. Paris' transit authority RATP is fast becoming a hotly contested sound stage. Since 1997, Antoine Naso, a 21-year RATP veteran and the authority's self-designated artistic director, has selected a range of entertainers to fill the Metro's tentacular halls with world music, rock and jazz standards or classical melodies...
After a two-year stint in the Army, and eight years as a reporter, deputy metro editor and education editor at the Washington Post, Barnes started work at the St. Petersburg Times, where he has been the chief executive officer since...
Chungmei Lee, a research associate at the Civil Rights Project and Joseph Berger, associate professor of education at the University of Massachusetts, unveiled a series of sobering statistics at the conference on minority achievement, entitled “Separate and Unequal: Segregation and Educational Opportunity in Metro Boston...
...SHOP THE WEB. "Prices can vary 20¢ to 30¢ a gallon in the same metro area, and often you don't have to drive very far to find cheap gas, just an extra block or two," suggests Jason Toews, co-founder of GasBuddy.com a website that uses volunteer spotters to help compile price lists at stations in 174 areas around the country. GasPriceWatch.com and FuelMeUp.com can also help you find the cheapest fill-up in your neighborhood, near your job or along your commute...
...call it a sophisticated attack," says British security expert Michael Dewar. "You and I could do it." Some 10 million train and subway trips are taken every day in America. Amtrak shuttles 66,000 of those passengers, two-thirds of them through the target-rich northeast corridor. The Washington Metro moves 600,000 people near national monuments. What makes trains useful is what makes them devilishly hard to secure: many doors, high volumes of passengers and thousands of miles of lonely tracks. "I hear people saying it is virtually impossible to make public transport in the U.S. secure," says...