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...Athens - with its ancient, narrow, car-choked streets - is a transportation nightmare at the best of times. The Greek government has been spending billions of euros building a new airport (successfully completed), new metro lines (mostly completed), 100 km of new highways (far from completed) and a new light-rail and tram system (only just begun). "By the time the Games begin, Athens will be a different city," says transportation manager Protopsaltis. "We will totally change the way it functions and that will be the legacy of the Olympics to Athens." If, that is, the dozens of projects now tying...
...understated, with large—and outrageously comfortable—black leather booths and muted tan walls. A large semicircular bar, which fills up considerably as the evening goes on, sweeps away to the right as one enters. The restaurant is separated from the bar by a guard rail and features the same selection of drinks as well as extensive lunch and dinner menus...
...bridge of reconciliation." Ceremonies to mark the start of construction were held on both sides of the 4-km-wide, landmined buffer zone that has divided communist North and capitalist South since the Korean War ended in 1953. Kim Suk Soo, South Korea's Prime Minister-designate, said the rail links would allow the two Koreas to build a "single economic community," reviving the North's ailing economy and helping the way to reunification of the two states. EARTH Upside Downside The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica will start shrinking in 2005 and close by 2050, Australian government...
...said the pair would be at commuter rail stations tomorrow morning to thanks voters for their support and rally for party unity...
...halfhearted, partly realized plan will only validate the criticisms and doom the new railroads. What is needed is leadership of the kind that Charles de Gaulle demonstrated in backing France's immensely successful high-speed rail, and vision on the scale of President Eisenhower's push for the interstate highway system. The 21st century paradox is that it is not railroads that are old-fashioned and retrograde but rather those essentially inefficient flying machines...