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...DENIS DOUTE, vice president of France's SNCF freight network, on the difficulties of implementing a plan to streamline rail-freight delivery between France and Germany
...after the violence struck home with a terror spree starting in May 2003, a poll published last year said 48.7% still had a positive opinion of bin Laden's rhetoric. Al Awdah, the radical sheikh who has joined with bin Laden in political causes in the past, continues to rail against social reform in Saudi Arabia, saying there is "no place for secularism in the Muslim world" and calling attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq "a religious duty...
According to an article in yesterday’s Boston Globe, MBTA commuter trains have struck more trespassers during a recent five-year span than some larger commuter rail systems. 56 people have been killed by MBTA commuter rail trains since 2000. The accident brings the total number of deaths involving Boston subways, buses, and commuter trains over the past five years...
...Daily Free Press’s editorial also wrote that the incident raises the question of the potential danger posed by the rail tracks running right through the school’s campus...
According to Rivera, the engineer of the commuter rail that struck the students told T police that he saw the students when they were only 50 feet in front of him and was not able to honk the horn or hit the brakes in time—the train would have required approximately a half a mile to be able to stop...