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Then M.S. asked her to stay with the children. We moved to another balcony and stood at the rail. Immediately we saw telescopes on the watchtower turned in our direction, and the border guards on the nearest rocks raised their binoculars too. From below we heard a voice in the telephone booth: "He's come out on the balcony, second on the right." We exchanged glances; I laughed and used a four-letter word. He gave me another glance: I had never ventured it before with him. (I immediately regretted it -- he might think that I don't care about...
...instances of victimology are so ludicrous. Two men hiding in a New York City subway tunnel were burned when they accidentally touched an electrified rail; a jury threw $13 million at them. The city is appealing the award. Joel Steinberg, the wife beater and child abuser who was convicted in New York City in 1989 of the battering death of his six-year-old illegally adopted daughter Lisa, told the court, "I'm a victim, as was everyone else who knew Lisa...
...more than 1.5 million carloads of poisons, solvents, pesticides and other hazardous materials are hauled across the U.S. by train. Given the sheer volume of traffic, accidental chemical releases are inevitable, and they occur at the rate of about three a day. In 1988 there were 1,015 toxic rail spills; last year there were 1,254 such incidents, an increase of nearly...
Most impressive, in contrast to the U.S., has been the government's overhauling of the national infrastructure. In the 1970s, pressured by the oil embargo and fearful of falling far behind its German neighbor, France decided ( to rebuild its road and rail network, update the telecommunications system and revolutionize its power-generating structure. Those projects alone account for $250 billion in long-term investment...
...great technical advantage of the TGV is that it is compatible with existing tracks and station facilities; it moves to high speed only on specially built lines outside the towns. The TGV program achieved an American breakthrough when the Texas high-speed-rail authority chose the French system over a German competitor for a 600-mile high-speed route linking Dallas with Houston and San Antonio -- a contract worth $5.8 billion on completion in 1998. In the past few years, additional TGV lines have been built toward Rennes in Brittany, Bordeaux in the southwest and Le Mans in the northwest...