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ATLANTA To entice more riders onto its three-line rail system, MARTA is installing five flat-screen TVs in every train car to help commuters pass the time. Advertisers pay, so the fare stays...
...Boston Redevelopment Authority released a preliminary plan detailing the community’s priorities for the future development of Allston. That plan, developed by a task force of University officials, Allston residents, and city leaders, calls for the construction of housing units, commercial districts, parks, and a commuter rail...
...only politicians and activists who experience cognitive dissonance on indecency--so do everyday citizens. They want protection from smut yet don't use the V chip. They talk about competing with pop culture to parent their children yet give kids TVs and computers in their bedrooms. They rail against sex and violence in entertainment, yet--as a group, anyway--reward it and punish the alternatives. The most wholesome new network show of last fall was CBS's Clubhouse, a sweet drama about a teenage bat boy for a baseball team, executive-produced by Mel (The Passion of the Christ) Gibson...
...President?s second-term domestic agenda, the White House has problems of its own. On the campaign trail, President Bush avoided getting specific on how he?d change Social Security, talking only in vague terms about an "ownership society" and his determination to grab hold of the "third rail of American politics." Showing voters a detailed plan on Social Security could have sent Bush back to Crawford, Texas permanently. But having avoided airing specific proposals during the election, whatever plans he now puts forward don?t carry much of a public mandate, and Republican members of Congress don't know...
...Metrorail also goes deep into the heart of Houston's museum district. The Museum of Fine Arts and the Contemporary Arts Museum are on Bissonnet Street, adjacent to the rail. Also nearby: the Menil Collection--one of the country's most distinguished troves of 20th century art, in a serene, minimalist setting--and the Rothko Chapel, designed by artist Mark Rothko and home to 14 specially commissioned works in undulating shades of black, gray and violet...