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Cambridge taxis presently charge $1 when a passenger enters the cab, $1 for the first one-eighth mile and 25 cents for each subsequent one-eighth mile, making their prices roughly competetive with those of taxis in neighboring cities...
...Mile: 1. Lanctot 4:57.58; 2. Heather Grimshaw (BC) 5: 03.81; 3. Alais Grifin (Harvard...
...Mile: 1. Alexander Adam (BU), 4:10. 10; 2. Jamahl Prince (BC) 4:12.25; 3. Shine...
Then came word of a full-scale disaster. Early in the week, the slightly nauseating odor of oil was noticeable along coastal areas of Saudi Arabia near the border with Kuwait. Within days, observers could see the source of the smell: a 16-km (10-mile) band of crude, so thick in places that the water heaved like mud. Iraq is believed to have opened the spigots of Kuwait's main supertanker-loadin g pier, the Sea Island terminal, 16 km offshore from the country's major petroleum refinery and loading complex at Mina Al-Ahmadi. Through pipes leading from...
...Bakal brothers, Eddie and Jake, the road to the American dream runs dead center through one of the most lethal neighborhoods in Detroit. The brothers, who moved there from Iraq in the mid-1970s, own a convenience store at the intersection of Seven Mile and Van Dyke roads, an easy rifle shot from streets lined with abandoned houses and open-air drug markets. To look at their tidy store, swaddled in bulletproof glass, surrounded by surveillance cameras and equipped with a small arsenal in back, one would think they too were in the middle...