Word: rails
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...long been worried about the vulnerability of the nation's rail system to terror attack. But the threat was deemed immediate enough late last week for the agency to issue a formal warning. The alert cautioned that al-Qaeda, "possibly using operatives who have a Western appearance," might try to destroy key rail bridges, derail trains or target hazardous-material containers. What prompted the unusually specific warning? Intelligence sources tell TIME it came as a result of the attack by two gunmen who killed one U.S. Marine and wounded another on a Kuwaiti island on Oct. 8. Kuwaiti authorities...
...equally knotty problem is the trucks. Omya would like to keep new traffic off the congested roads, and one way is by expanding rail shipments. Both the state and the company are lobbying for a new rail spur--financed by taxpayers and Omya--to connect the company's processing plant in Florence with its biggest quarry, in nearby Middlebury. Though the proposed mine in Danby would add trucks to the road, the Middlebury spur would take many more off, about four for every operating railcar...
...Electrified third rail...
...Iraq, a few of them, perhaps, bad people, but most of them surely innocent. In a war, even if the U.S. can kill 100 Iraqis for every Westerner who dies, the economic, ecological and moral costs are too high. In Britain we have recently suffered catastrophic chaos on the rail network and a frightful foot-and-mouth epidemic that stripped the countryside of animals. In other countries there have been terrifying fires. All these events were disasters that did not need a terrorist to set them off. A single reasonably intelligent person could have caused any of them...
Iweala, who performed the fleeting rhymes and ever-changing rhythms of his spoken-word poem, “The Rail,” to intermittent audience cheers, said he was delighted to be one of the evening’s winners...