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...understand, as if anyone could fail to comprehend what they're asking of me. My translator makes great speeches about how we're going to see what's holding the aid up (true), how there's huge problems in its distribution (true) and how we're going to rail against the aid agencies, the Afghan authorities and the governments of the world, and, if we have to, physically force them to bring food here (absolutely false). And then we jump into our taxi and speed away, leaving a trail of screaming children in our dust...
...Train? Here?s where the good news starts. Amtrak says it's getting 10 percent more inquiries about tickets for the Thanksgiving period than it did a year ago, when the passenger rail service carried 567,000 people, said spokeswoman Karina Van Veen. And Greyhound Bus Lines reported a 20 percent surge in advance-purchase tickets for the Thanksgiving period and an increase in trips longer than 1,000 miles...
...Waterfront will open. When finally completed in 2010, the Silver Line will not only offer a one-seat ride from Dudley Square to Logan for over 60,000 riders a day, but it will also provide easy transfers to the Orange, Green and Red lines and connections to commuter rail and Amtrak at South Station. The Silver Line, which will operate up to 30 trips per hour, will feature state-of-the-art technology such as the Intelligent Transportation System which will receive satellite-transmitted, Global Positioning System data to track vehicles along the route, and smart kiosks that provide...
...just ship the coal by rail to the Mohave power plant--the same way Peabody already ships coal from Black Mesa to a power plant near Lake Powell? There is no direct rail line to the Mohave plant, and the cost of building one, says Peabody's Palmer, "would be prohibitive...
...felt my earliest memories pop up--like making bouquets with her and my sister from flowers we'd pull off bushes on the way to church to leave on the marble communion rail. When my mother died, her coffin was in that chapel. In 1996 the Redemptorist Fathers were desanctifying and selling the building, and I was able to buy it and preserve it--and I also bought our old house on St. Charles Avenue. Whatever people may say, I do believe you can buy back your past...