Word: metros
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Lawmakers left and right say freedom is exactly what they want to safeguard. "We are having witch hunts," says Hagedorn. A Metro State colleague, ethnic-studies professor Oneida Meranto, came under attack last winter after clashing with Republicans in her class. (She was later reprimanded not for her political views but for breach of privacy when she said that one of the complainants was going to flunk her class...
...tools at their disposal," says David French, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonpartisan civil-liberties group. "How do you mandate balance?" It's unclear, for instance, how either Hagedorn's bill or the Horowitz version would have made a difference in the case of Metro State's Meranto; neither prescribes penalties. Even if the bills passed, "there's a risk that [they] may set a precedent of legislators becoming micromanagers," says Robert O'Neil, director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression in Charlottesville...
...cities of Davao and General Santos, Sulaiman was again on the radio, asserting that Abu Sayyaf's "gallant warriors of Islam" were behind the blasts. But his last words were: "There is one more to come." About 20 minutes later, a bomb went off on a bus in Makati, Metro Manila's financial center. The toll for the day: 12 dead and more than 100 wounded...
...hour day. But, stationed near office buildings and along rail lines, shared cars offer "mobility insurance" for workers who avoid mass transit because they just might need a car for a midday errand. The message: If you must own a car, leave it in your garage at home. Washington Metro officials have placed 107 Flexcars and Zipcars at 66 city and suburban stations. And downtown Seattle has 35 Flexcars so that members can scoot across town for lunch or a parent-teacher meeting. "Car sharing is not a silver bullet," says Ref Lindmark, a transportation planner for King County, Wash...
...CLOSED. The BANGKOK METRO, for a week of safety tests and driver retraining, following a crash at the Thailand Cultural Center station that injured more than 130 people; in Bangkok. The accident, which came six months after the $2.75 billion subway system opened, occurred during morning rush hour when an empty train smashed into a train crowded with 700 passengers. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra defended the system as the world's "most advanced and sophisticated...