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...strathspeys, and French military bands blared out God Save the Queen and the Marseillaise. But nothing embodied the spirit of Franco-British cooperation more than a joint announcement by President Francois Mitterrand and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that their governments had approved the construction of a 31-mile-long rail tunnel linking the two countries. For nearly two centuries, rulers, entrepreneurs and engineers have dreamed of spanning the English Channel...
...world's largest parking lot, with 4.7 million vehicles making 25 million trips daily among 84 cities. Officials of the region took a promising step last week, however, toward giving all that chrome some competition. Mayor Tom Bradley officiated at a groundbreaking for a 21-mile, $595 million light-rail project to link Long Beach and Los Angeles, currently the country's largest megalopolis without rail transit...
...early years of the century, Los Angeles had more than 1,000 miles of urban rail lines, more than any other U.S. city. By 1961, the trains were defeated by freeways and the conscious effort of auto, tire and oil companies to cripple rail transit, for which they were convicted in court. The new rail project, financed by adding .5% to the area's existing 6% sales tax, will share much of the right-of-way of the old system. The first passengers will board in 1989, and by the year 2000, says the Los Angeles County transportation commission...
...upper deck, where they found Klinghoffer's body lying facedown in a pool of blood beside his overturned wheelchair. The terrorist gestured that they were to toss both the body and the wheelchair overboard. After hearing the body splash in the waters below, neither man looked over the rail. "I wanted to break into tears, but was unable to," Da Silva recalled last week...
ergometer (erg): a machine that simulates rowing. An erg looks somewhat like half a bike glued to a thin rail and a little sliding vinyl seat. Ergs measure a rower's power by counting how many revolutions of the bicycle wheel he or she can generate...