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...MBTA's commuter rail--the "Purple Line"--operates out of two termini: North Station (on the Green and Orange Lines of the MBTA subway), and south Station (on the Red Line). From these stations, 11 lines radiate into Boston's suburbs, and throughout most of eastern Massachusetts...
Start with the name: Police say they are looking Rafael Resendez-Ramirez, a tattooed 39-year-old Mexican rail-riding drifter and fugitive who may be responsible for as many as eight murders in Texas, Kentucky and Illinois. But his uncle, whose name is Rafael Resendiz Ramirez, tells the Associated Press that his nephew's real name is Angel Resendiz Resendiz. The killings bearing the suspect's imprint, say authorities, have all occurred near train tracks and been brutally violent, often the result of bludgeoning. What police don?t know, and what worries them most, is where Ramirez/Resendiz...
POCKET CHANGE The Susan B. Anthony coin failed miserably in its mission to drive the dollar bill to extinction. But it has found a niche in recent years at stamp and vending machines and rail stations--so useful that the U.S. Mint has finally depleted reserves of the coin minted two decades ago. It will have to issue a final 1999 batch to meet demand before Susan B.'s replacement, the gold-colored Sacagawea, makes its debut early next year...
...unofficial capital of New England. Boston, the sixth-largest media market in the country, is a significant step up in prestige from Hartford, the 27th-largest. Loyal Pats fans will be there for the team as long as the home field is within distance of the commuter rail or a short drive...
...summit insisting their sustained bombardment of Yugoslavia was paying off. Officials rolled out numbers to tick off progress: after 3,000 target strikes, 16 early-warning radars were gone, half of Serbia's MiG-29s destroyed, two oil refineries eliminated, 25% of stored fuel wiped out, all four vital rail and road links to Kosovo damaged. Never mind that 3 of every 4 bombs were falling on big, empty, static targets already hit. Alliance spokesmen were sure that new strikes on Milosevic's Tito-era villa, on the broadcast studios of state-owned Serbian TV, and on the 23-story...