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...pull a three-point turn from six-feet under. Despite inadequate funding from a varsity-sport-obsessed Athletic Department, weather-beaten practice facilities and a severe shortage of even primitive equipment, the table tennis team is ranked numero uno in the East after its recent win at the Northeast Intercollegiate Table Tennis League championships...
Everything was set for the long-delayed opening-five years late-of Japan's sparkling $2.4 billion New Tokyo International Airport at Narita, 40 miles northeast of the capital. The 114 shops and restaurants and nine banks in the terminal complex were polished and ready for business. The 32 airlines that would use the new facility prepared to switch 150 flights a day from older, overtaxed Haneda airport across Tokyo Bay. In a nation where tradition and superstition still count as much as technology, a taian, or auspicious day, had even been determined for the dedication last week...
...seeking federal aid to fend off bankruptcy, was forced last week to find money to give a raise to transit workers and avert a threatened subway and bus strike. And the cost of removing last winter's mountainous snows has strained the budgets of some localities in the Northeast and Midwest. Not so, however, in the Sunbelt. For example, Houston, reveling in a record surplus of $24 million, is budgeting to train 500 new cops this year, more than triple the average for the past decade...
Harvard's table tennis team emerged as the King of the Hill in eastern ping-pong Saturday, defeating a 16-team field to win the Northeast Intercollegiate Table Tennis League championship at Rutgers...
...VACATION approaches once again, the prospect of traveling home via Amtrak looms large for many students from the Northeast Corridor. The federally-sponsored and seemingly always-bankrupt railroad has a unique sort of charm. If you like crowded, eternally late trains and continually climbing ticket prices, you'll love Amtrak. Every experienced Amtrak rider has had several brushes with destiny during the long rides to school and back. the railroad comes complete with a stock of weirdos, winos, and generally pitiful people, all of whom seem hellbent on telling you their life stories or annoying you as much as possible...