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...Beutler didn't rail against all the expectations society set for her. She became engaged to be married at the end of her junior year and tied the knot after graduation the following year...
...grandson of Derby champ Northern Dancer, War Chant is 3-for-4 lifetime, with his most impressive win in the March 4 San Rafael Stakes. But while cruising down the home stretch, the impressionable youngster broke stride when he stopped to look at a sign on the inside rail, spooking his backers. War Chant gets blinkers tomorrow, and is equally capable of a misstep as he is of a money run. Although War Chant has never run outside California, he could complete a Drysdale exacta and validate his breeding...
Jump on the commuter rail and go to Rockport. Have clam chowder...
...city has good rail and bus lines, then development can be concentrated around mass-transit stops rather than spread out all over the countryside. Public transport is still a tough sell in the U.S., but rail lines in most of the world have kept sprawl from being even worse than it is. Says Tony Burton, a member of the Council for the Protection of Rural England: "The dilemma is, if you don't build roads, what do you do? Well, for a start, you prevent sprawl." Curitiba, Brazil, is an up-and-coming city in which an efficient bus system...
...played a role--and so did the shifting U.S. population. "Trains used to come to the front door of America," says Bill Withuhn, an authority on trains at the Smithsonian. "Now they go to the backyards." Depots are shuttered; junkyards and weed patches and winos too often greet the rail traveler...