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...Boston University undergraduates were struck and killed by a MBTA commuter rail train early Wednesday morning in a tragedy that has left the BU campus grieving and investigators trying to determine why the students were on the tracks...

Author: By Reed B. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: T Strikes, Kills Two BU Students | 2/11/2005 | See Source »

...Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980. Built in 1958, it was where Tito hosted such heads of state as Leonid Brezhnev and Jawaharlal Nehru of India. It's recently been restored to all its cold war-era glory and is available for rent in Belgrade, Serbia, where the impoverished state rail system is doing what it can to earn extra money. The locomotive was last used in its original capacity 25 years ago, carrying Tito's remains cross-country during his funeral parade, and has been kept in a Belgrade engine hangar ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tito's Tank Engine | 1/31/2005 | See Source »

CHARGED. JUAN ALVAREZ, 25, disturbed laborer who, in an apparent aborted suicide attempt, allegedly abandoned his Jeep Cherokee on a heavily traveled commuter-rail track in Glendale, Calif., during the morning rush, causing a colossal derailment that left about 200 people injured and at least 11 dead; with 11 counts of murder with "special circumstances," making him eligible for the death penalty; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 7, 2005 | 1/30/2005 | See Source »

...Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980. Built in 1958, it was where Tito hosted such heads of state as Leonid Brezhnev and Jawaharlal Nehru of India. It's recently been restored to all its cold war-era glory and is available for rent in Belgrade, Serbia, where the impoverished state rail system is doing what it can to earn extra money. The locomotive was last used in its original capacity 25 years ago, carrying Tito's remains cross-country during his funeral parade, and has been kept in a Belgrade engine hangar ever since. The Blue Train reflects Tito's hedonistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tito's Tank Engine | 1/25/2005 | See Source »

...Adjacent to the Vietnamese capital's historic train station, Hanoi's hippest new hangout is a replica of an old frontier watering hole in the American West. A five-meter-tall cowboy stands outside, twirling a neon lasso over the saloon. Inside, the split-rail walls are decorated with cowboy memorabilia?from cowboy boots to a mounted cowskin?and since it opened in October, trendy young Vietnamese have been packing through the Seventeen Saloon's swinging doors and whooping it up with whiskey and tequila served by waitresses in cowboy hats and jeans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pour 'Em, Cowboy | 1/23/2005 | See Source »

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