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...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...
...stopped at the wrong metro station with a vintage Brioni blazer, but no umbrella and no idea which of the large white tents housed Phoebe Philo and her newest creations for the House of Chloe. Trudging through the puddles of the Jardin de Tuileries, I grasped my invite (I swear I’m Alisa Annis of Footwear News...
University President Lawrence H. Summers, in a breakfast speech to business leaders Friday morning, said that Harvard’s success and the Boston metro area’s economy are “fundamentally intertwined...