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...Peter Pan Bus Lines, a business partner of Greyhound, sued Fung Wah and Kristine Travel and Tour, which operates the Lucky Star line, for violating regulations of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration...
Although I agree with most of what Peter Charles Mulcahy has to say, I take exception to his facile characterization of, as he calls him, Cat “Peace Train” Stevens (Comment, “The War on (Yusef) Islam,” Sept. 27). Stevens managed to take time out from warbling “Moonshadow” to support the fatwa again Salman Rushdie, whose sins are really limited to an excessive fondness for topical celebrity gossip. To be sure, Stevens was quick to assure the press that he was not encouraging...
...turned out to have prostate cancer, and 15% of those had aggressive, high-grade tumors. It now seems that the PSA's rate of increase over time may be a more valuable measure than the raw number itself. But doctors clearly need to develop better diagnostic tests, says Dr. Peter Carroll, executive editor of the foundation's report. They also need better ways to determine which cancers are growing so quickly that they must be removed and which are growing slowly enough to be left in place...
...open in late November, was designed by Dyrdek to mimic urban plazas like Philadelphia's Love Park. "We're creating a skater's dream, no-holds-barred and skate at your own risk." For the nation's 10 million street skaters, that's an invitation hard to resist. --By Peter Bailey...
...went to Kansas City, Mo., last week to watch Peter Hart conduct a focus group of more or less undecided voters. Focus groups are a powerful political aphrodisiac: civilians tell the wizards how to rub them the right way. But they are also an insidious reversal of the political process, turning followers into leaders. Watching Hart, a pioneer and master of the idiom, trying to elicit responses from a surly group of citizens, I began to wonder whether focus groups have outlived their usefulness. The group was almost entirely predictable. They said Bush was a regular guy and Kerry seemed...