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...anyone confronting existential angst, a dose of high-brow self-help can go a long way. "We start from the perspective that most lives are quite chaotic and turbulent," says faculty member Alain de Botton, author of How Proust Can Change Your Life. "The school is a guide rail to hang...
...Ride the Rails. VIA Rail Canada is determined to tempt you aboard its long-haul train with 50% rebates if you book your tickets online before Dec. 11. If you have the free time, the "Canadian" route, for instance, departs Toronto, passes through the prairies and the Rockies and ends at Canada's Pacific coast five days later. VIA Rail promises down duvets in your sleeper, local wines to sip in the observation car, regional menus in the dining car and attentive staff...
...three years. The new smart technology would figure out the cheapest and most efficient times to run everything from major heating and cooling systems in public buildings to your clothes dryer. • Increased investment in mass transit. Hendricks says there are $20 billion to $30 billion in local-rail and alternative-energy bus projects that have already been approved by Congress but not yet funded by the Federal Government...
...sudden spate of sabotage capped nearly two years of sporadic vandalism to French rail lines that successive inquiries attributed to isolated, disgruntled trouble-makers. But the recent incidents showed more skill, and their perpetrators seemed able to act at will without detection. For that reason, French rail users were already rattled even before the coordinated attacks of Nov. 8. The saboteurs struck in virtually all corners of the nation without warning, and applied a high degree of knowledge and technical ability in putting the destructive metal hooks in place without being killed by the 25,000-volt power lines...
...Guillaume Pepy, chairman of France's state-owned SNCF rail company, didn't go so far as to speculate about what else the group might have done had it not been arrested. But he did say the "central role of rail travel as a collective means of travel that France has made a priority" was also what made it an inviting target for saboteurs seeking "to strike a blow at a well-functioning French society...