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...Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) pilot program succeeds, tokens could be completely replaced by machine-vended “smart cards” as early as next year...
...MBTA pilot is successful, these tokens and passes would be replaced by a swipe card system, which would allow riders to purchase cards and add value to them at T station machines...
...implementation of online evaluations for these three subjects is part of a pilot program planned last semester by the CUE, which had its first meeting of the year yesterday...
DIED. GORDON COOPER, 77, one of NASA's original seven astronauts; in Ventura, Calif. Famously casual in his approach to pilot training--and famously brilliant at it nonetheless--Cooper flew twice into orbit, as the sole pilot of the last Mercury mission in 1963 and as commander of Gemini 5 in 1965. For a time, Cooper held the world record for time logged in space, 222 hours, but his strap-it-on-and-go approach served him less well in the lunar program, when NASA preferred more by-the-book pilots. He never got a trip to the moon...
Which is why Monica Frost, a single mother leaning on her neighbor's beat-up Nissan in a black neighborhood north of downtown, knew exactly why Cosby Lindquist, 27, was heading up the walk one sunny afternoon last week with a Palm Pilot in his hand. It was not the first time she had talked to someone with "this little computer thing." Lindquist pressed a button and handed it to her as an image of Bush appeared on the screen and an announcer listed how many African Americans had lost their health coverage and their jobs in the past four...