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...m.p.h., bare trees and backyards flying by, it's hard to believe that the nation's first high-speed train is really the work of Amtrak. Where is the sluggish, lurching ride we've come to count on--and curse--from the nation's famously floundering passenger-rail operator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amtrak's Last Train | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...tilting" technology that helps the Acela negotiate curves. More than a year behind schedule and millions of dollars over budget, the Acela, which is expected to launch in the Washington-Boston Northeast corridor on Dec. 11, is Amtrak's last chance to prove that intercity passenger rail can be a legitimate travel alternative in the U.S., as it is in Europe and Japan. "It's a stake in the ground," says CEO George Warrington, who envisions Acela as the first of a necklace of high-speed rail corridors (such as Los Angeles-San Francisco and Chicago-Milwaukee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amtrak's Last Train | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

Given the company's 30 years of spotty service, many observers think Amtrak's termination wouldn't be such a bad thing that only by opening up train service to the free market will high-speed rail have a real shot at success. Since it was cobbled together from the ruins of the freight railroads' dying passenger business in 1971, Amtrak has chugged through $23 billion in federal funds and been plagued by an entrenched bureaucracy, pork-barrel politics, high labor costs and stagnant ridership--all the things, in short, you might expect from a state-run monopoly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amtrak's Last Train | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...readers to look at the electoral map on which the Bush states appeared in red: "You see the state where James Byrd was lynch-dragged behind a pickup truck until his body came apart. It's red. You see the state where Mathew Shepard was crucified on a split-rail fence for the crime of being gay. It's red. You see the state where right-wing extremists blew up a federal building and murdered scores of federal employees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Joust for the White House? | 11/29/2000 | See Source »

...impeachment, Hillary was one of the more unpopular First Ladies. She bungled the Administration's biggest domestic project--health care--after wresting it from Gore's portfolio. Her fingerprints were everywhere, especially on the scandals (from Whitewater to Travelgate). In every crisis, her reflexive response was to blame others, rail against enemies and stonewall, unless called before a grand jury, at which point she would be overcome by short- and long-term memory loss. It wasn't until the President found himself under siege that her popularity took off. By the end of impeachment, she realized that, Sally Field-like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Capitol Hill | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

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