Word: railroads
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Some of them turn up in unlikely places. In Manhattan's Times Square, the 48-story headquarters of the Conde Nast publishing company produces nearly 10% of its electricity with photovoltaics and hydrogen-powered fuel cells. In what was once the derelict B&O railroad site on the riverfront in Pittsburgh, Pa., you now find the PNC Firstside Center, with many of the standard green features plus eight electric-car recharging stations to encourage the use of energy-efficient cars...
...never met the hordes following the lock-step of all-inclusive tours. Yet even in Twain's era many observers were aghast that tourism was making places like Nice increasingly dependent on revenues from visitors. Then it was the influx of "ordinary people" stimulated by the coming of the railroad from Paris through Lyon and Marseilles. About a century later, it was decadence and crime, a subject that sufficiently aroused English novelist and long-time Nice resident Graham Greene to write his famous polemic J'Accuse: The Dark Side of Nice. Kanigel has compiled a hybrid, neither a lightweight beach...
...Passengers injured in the derailment near Washington of an Amtrak passenger train, a crash investigators say may have been caused by heat-induced railroad damage...
...weirdest public bath I've found in Tokyo is located hard by the railroad in Kabuki-cho, the famous red-light district. I was intrigued by its position when I stumbled upon a mention of the Green Plaza Shinjuku in a magazine, but grew alarmed at the cheesy, basement entrance. I ascended to the 10th floor, and was relieved to find the 24-hr. spa clean and respectable. Moreover, it features a real gem on its roof: the rotenburo, or outdoor bath. There's something gleefully luxurious about floating in a steaming hot bath the size of a small swimming...
Phoebe M.W. Kosman ’05, a Crimson editor, is a history and literature concentrator in Winthrop House. She is currently working on the railroad, where people from Connecticut patronize her. In her spare time, she watches tourists struggle with rotaries...