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...same week was top businessman Eric Chia Eng Hock, a favorite of Mahathir who headed one of the then leader's pet projects, the Perwaja Steel Works. Abdullah also indefinitely postponed what would have been the country's biggest infrastructure project, a $3.8 billion replacement for the dilapidated railway system awarded by Mahathir in his final days in office to a consortium led by businessman Syed Mokhtar al-Bukhary. "It's really been a shocker how far and how fast Abdullah has gone," comments a senior Western diplomat in Kuala Lumpur. "I think he's really changing the way people...
...want proof that America's railroads are back on track, take a look inside the Network Operations Center (NOC) of the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. (BNSF). Dispatchers at the railway's headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, sit hunched over computers 24/7, directing trains for the nation's second largest railroad and tracking shipments of everything from coal to Wal-Mart clothing. Nine megascreens monitor the flow of goods on 200,000 railcars across 33,000 miles of track--Chinese merchandise rolling east from California, Midwest grain heading west and then to Asia, FedEx packages crisscrossing the nation...
...other big catalyst for BNSF's growth: China. The railway's L.A.-to-Chicago transcontinental route is humming with mile-long BNSF trains, their railcars stacked two containers high with Chinese-made toys and togs, purses and plasma TVs. The town of Colton, Calif., east of Los Angeles, is now the busiest spot in the West for rail traffic, thanks to a tsunami of transpacific trade--$1.3 billion for BNSF alone this year--arriving at ports from San Diego to Seattle. "At the end of the day," says Rose, "all roads lead to China." Particularly railroads: BNSF's China-related...
...milled around the entrance. They were not petitioners but officials from various provinces there to pick up any stragglers who had made it to the capital. Often, according to petitioners, the officials pretend to help the visitors, befriending them in a familiar dialect, before hauling them off to the railway station for a forced ride home. As for Li, chances are he was swept up in a similar fashion. He will probably be back before long. After all, he has traveled to Beijing 150 times and been thrown out on each occasion. What is just one more trip for these...
...Tuesday found us back at the Magic Kingdom, where six-year-old Caroline continued the roller-coaster progress she had begun on Sunday. This second round of sessions would see her and cousin Evie riding ?Big Thunder Mountain Railway? no fewer than three times, the third by themselves with hands raised the whole way. Caroline would not try ?Splash Mountain? again after the harrowing experience two days earlier, but did say, ?Maybe next year when I?m seven.? Which seems to indicate we?re coming back to Disney next year. My skis seem headed for the annual spring tag sale...