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...Improving Access As chairman of Britain's National Disability Council from 1995 to 2000, I would like to thank you for highlighting the problems disabled Europeans still face in gaining access to public and private buildings and services [April 11]. Some improvements are taking place. Officials of Britain 's railways, for example, are consulting on a long - term accessibility strategy, including improving access to railway stations as well as providing better information and staff training to meet the needs of disabled rail travelers. What was learned in the development of this strategy is that architects, planners and facility managers must...
...they say in France, "Cherchez la ? pizza?" Lower Taxes, Faster Tracks Low-cost airlines are not the ultimate word in cheap transport, it turns out. EasyJet has halted its twice-daily flights from Paris to Marseilles because the discounter was losing a battle for customers with the French railways. The high-speed TGV train can now do the 660-km trip in just three hours, about the same as flying if you include early check-in times and travel to the airport, and has been offering one-way fares as low as €38. Jean-Cyril Spinetta, the chairman...
...Tokyo cabaret, how they "sat down with the hostesses they had been assigned and almost at once reached out for their breasts as nonchalantly as they helped themselves to fruit on the table." He observes the clownish scenes that take place each night at subway stations as impeccable railway attendants try to steer hordes of drunks toward their trains. He hears sad stories that would never have escaped without the lubricant of booze. At one bar, a fellow drinker confides that his wife is pregnant and his salary insufficient to support a child. Ultimately, Morley is invited to sleep...
Throughout the day, Mrs. Kawamoto had been frantic for news of her son. She had made an attempt to get into Hiroshima by train, but was turned back at the West Hiroshima station. The morning of Aug. 7 she made a second attempt, but this time the railway station was roped off. The next day she went to the schools in the towns around Ono; she heard that bomb victims had been brought to these schools, which, like the warehouse in Ujina, had been turned into hospitals. On Aug. 9 she got word that her son was alive...
Naked of walls and roof, the frame of foot-thick oak timbers has the precise, angular grace of a Victorian railway bridge. It is bound by hand-hewn pegs to a 20-ft. by 30-ft. rectangle. Inside this architectonic web freshly spun along the rear of the Bakers' blueberry-shingled farm house, Babcock, 50, in red plaid shirt and worn, blue work pants, ministers to a most ungraceful tangle of rope and wood...