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Even as national public-transit ridership hits levels not seen since the 1950s - the decade when the new interstate-highway system began siphoning travelers off trains - federal funding has not risen in step, leaving the biggest systems struggling to pay for the very capital projects that could improve performance and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Metro Crash: A Nation's Aging Transit System | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

There is such security in familiar cultural references - those passing comments that so naturally pepper conversations, but that I only began to notice in the foreign context of Harvard, where casual allusions are strange and alien. In London, stripped of my “English” accent, I escape...

Author: By Olivia M. Goldhill | Title: Home & Away | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

The Appalachian National Scenic Trail is the nation's longest "marked footpath," stretching approximately 2,178 miles (the exact figure fluctuates) from the summit of Springer Mountain in Georgia to the top of Mount Katahdin in Maine. The trail blazes through 14 states and ranges from deep wilderness to strenuous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Appalachian Trail | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

If Nancy Pelosi gets her way by the end of the week, the U.S. House of Representatives will have passed landmark global-warming legislation. But you might not know it from the near unanimously bad reviews so many different interested parties are giving it. Groups as disparate as the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global-Warming's Rough Ride Through Congress | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

But the winners have a cautionary tale to consider. The first foreign firm awarded a post-Saddam Hussein contract was the Chinese National Petroleum Corp. Oil began to flow six months after CNPC began work on the Ahdad field, located 90 miles south of Baghdad in Wasit province. But it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Chinese Lesson in Iraqi Oil Exploration | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

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