Word: rails
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What causes these critics to lose their professional cool at the mere mention of Breggin is his relentless crusade against the conventional wisdom of psychiatry -- and his increasingly high profile. What causes Breggin to rail against his profession is its eagerness to embrace technology, from the early zeal for lobotomies and electroshock to the modern reliance on such psychoactive drugs as Thorazine and lithium. In looking for the quick fix, Breggin argues, too many psychiatrists have forgotten the importance of love, hope and empathy in maintaining sanity. The power to heal the mind lies in people, he says, not pills...
...Wall Street. Moreover, the staggering bid arrived while investors were still humming with reports that the Norfolk Southern railroad was in talks to acquire Conrail, once a sickly ward of the government but now a healthy freight hauler, in a deal that would create the second largest U.S. rail carrier...
...busy South Rim, where 7,000 vehicles a day compete for 1,500 parking spaces, rangers are trying to discourage autos. Businessman Max Biegert has revived the Grand Canyon Railway, which last year trundled 100,000 passengers to the rim from the main highway 65 miles away. A rail spur under development will connect with shuttle buses that now carry visitors along the rim. Eventually a hefty fee may be imposed on motorists who insist on bringing their cars into the park...
...rush hour on Dec. 7 last year, Colin Ferguson boarded New York's Long Island Rail Road. As the train headed for the suburbs, the Jamaican immigrant opened fired into a carload of 90 commuters with a 9-mm Ruger semiautomatic handgun. Six died; 19 were wounded. At the time of his arrest, Ferguson had in his pockets notes voicing hatred of whites, Asians and "Uncle Tom Negroes." He had a long history of angry run-ins with whites. In an earlier incident, he yelled at his perceived enemies, "Black rage will get you!" Now "black rage" may become...
...their sports- utility vehicles. Jim Banks, 42, who sells hair products in the San Francisco Bay Area, nearly ran over a mountain lion with his Toyota 4Runner while returning home from a camping trip at 3:30 one rainy morning. "I swerved to avoid it and hit a guard rail," he recalls...