Word: rails
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...reach the trail by rail. The Boston subway system, part of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) and called the T, is the oldest in the nation. And its four lines (red, green, blue and orange) will take you everywhere you need to go for just 85 cents a ride...
...onto the tracks and reset the brake. But Keno was afraid of the dark subway tunnels, the rats and exposed high-voltage lines. For a full 30 minutes he sat panicked as the conductor and Transit Authority supervisors, still not knowing his identity, coached and chided him. Finally a rail inspector arrived and repowered the train. At the terminal, Keno was sent for the mandatory drug test that motormen take in the event of a serious gaffe. However, he fled before reaching the Transit Authority offices...
...among her perennial flowers, planted a woodland garden, resurrected an old pond and created a wildflower meadow. Author of the new book Noah's Garden, Stein decries "the vast, nearly continuous and terribly impoverished ecosystem" consisting of copycat lawns and gardens from coast to coast. "We cannot in fairness rail against those who destroy the rain forest or threaten the spotted owl," she says, "when we have made our own yards uninhabitable...
Since the Serbs have almost no air defenses, attacking planes could easily bomb bridges, rail lines or supply depots. Taking out mobile heavy artillery around besieged enclaves would be far more difficult. The main problem: What if air strikes alone don't stop Serb aggression...
AALARM posted a recent sign that lists a number of states in which homosexuality is illegal. That's true to form. But the group's latest offering seems uncharacteristically pro something: General Colin Powell. In fact, the posters rail against Powell critics for "foisting their misconceptions upon our so-called diverse campus." Hmmm...