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There are 10 million more Americans in 1985 than there were in 1980, and most of them seem to have squeezed into the entryway between the doors of car 9132 of the Long Island Rail Road's 5:47 to Syosset, N.Y. At exactly 5:41 p.m. the last seat is taken. At 5:46 the standing room in the aisles is filled. By 5:49, when the train begins its slow, stately crawl from Pennsylvania Station, only two minutes late, the throng in the vestibule has achieved a degree of intimacy known in other places as close dancing...
...newcomer, who has paid $5 for a one-way ticket, naively believes she should be entitled to heat, and, furthermore, to a seat. She mumbles into the aggregate human mass that riding the Long Island Rail Road is, on the whole, one of the 14 most uncomfortable things a human being can do, vying for pride of place with one of its associated enterprises, the New York City subway system, and root-canal surgery. To her surprise, all the inadvertent intimates within earshot protest vehemently. "It's not as bad as you make it sound," argues a gentleman...
Every day in the U.S. the chemical and petroleum industries produce about 275 million gal. of gasoline, 2.5 million lbs. of pesticides and herbicides, and nearly 723,000 tons of dangerous wastes. Some 250,000 loads of hazardous materials, chiefly petrochemicals, are shipped across the country by rail or road. Considering the volume of this production and movement, fatal accidents are few, just eight deaths last year. One reason, contends the chemical industry, is its elaborate and expensive safety precautions. Says Bruce Karrh, a physician who is also vice president for safety, health and environmental affairs for Du Pont...
...Porter Square station will link the western end of the Red Line with a commuter rail service that extends to the New Hampshire border, said MBTA Board of Directors member Judith Robbins...
...their own fees; he also admits that the financial institutions face a bad public-image problem. Says he: "If you maintain a balance under $100, banks should charge you $10 a month. But if they do that, they'll be run out of town on a rail." Indeed, the new fees have infuriated politicians and consumer advocates. They maintain that the charges usually hit individuals with $1,000 or less in their accounts, while wealthy depositors pay almost no fees and receive lavish services. Contends Stephen Brobeck, executive director of the Consumer Federation of America: "We are witnessing...